TREES NEAR POWER-LINES
LEGAL LIABILITY OP OWNERS,
if a tree falls on a high tension power line and the result is that some person is killed, the owner of .the tree is responsible for the damage. This statement was made to the Wanganui-Rangitikoi Electric Power Board at a meeting last week by Mr. W. Morrison, who, with .Mr. \V. S. Glenn, was a member of a committee, appointed to investigate the danger threatening the lines in lhe district between Wanganui and Wavcrloy with a, view to inducing the settlers to co-operate with the board in having the plantations removed. Mr. Morrison said that the responsibility that rested on owners of trees was not generally known. '
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 29 August 1929, Page 4
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115TREES NEAR POWER-LINES Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 29 August 1929, Page 4
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