The River Board.
The move the proposal for the formation of a river b >aru is examined the better it. appears. The danger of any lawsuit from a neighbour, from embanking out flood water is entirely swept away by •Judicial decisions examined. Flood water is permitted to be treated as a common enemy and everyone is entitled to bank against it, and his banks are to be viewed as natural river banks. Our researches into tliid question assures us that it the settlers would only meet and appoint i a committee to seek a responsible legal opinion any hesitancy they may have about these difficulties would soon be cleared away. We, in common with many others were in donbfc as to the extent it was permissible for an owner to go to defend himself from flood water, to the damage to his neighbour, but now we find that any action to stay the "common enemy" from trespassing upon one's property is legal even though that enemy is thereby diverted upon the owner on the opposite side of the river. Whether this is as it should be is not for us to determine, we merely repeat the !«\? PR it is hud down.
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Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1894, Page 2
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201The River Board. Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1894, Page 2
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