THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Private Rights. A farmer in Canterbury has been awarded L'3lo against the local Power Board for damage done to liis trees during line erection, and Mr Justice Alpers, in giving judgment, laid down that while in the public interest public bodies should he able to over-ride private rights, “they should do this with the utmost regard to private property.” This judicial dictum should he widely noted. Public bodies, and especially Government departments. presuming on their power and the length of their purses, are at times disposed to be rough in their attitude towards private property. The law gives such bodies certain powers in respect to private property, but they have no more moral right than has a private person to act unjustly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 2
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126THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 2
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