GRAZING IN STREETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 95, 25 March 1885, Page 2

GRAZING IN STREETS.

j At the last meeting of the Sandon | and Carnarvon Road Board a letter j was read from Clash and Esam ; giving an 1 (Jpihion'oii a resolution pas 1 sed by the board at a recent meetings I grazing cattle and horses on tlie I streets m Sanson, and appropriating j tha money foPithe purpose of erecting a public fall;- ' The legal opinion WaV (I) that the board had acted beyond its powers m pass : ng the resolrition ; |(2). T^atit-ivadv isixble re'soluI tion shofcid be rdscindod ; "(8)j * That \ the moneys proposed by the board to be received by way of rent or rates | for allowitjg^tlie ofjSaiison , i to' graze cattle and horses on the ptiiblic struts «f* th^ township cannot bee I dfevoi'etl to 4hi -Public Hall Fond, bat- \ mu.ot, if received by the board,' ]ie/ ; paid to the credit •of the Road Board S Fund; (4). The board appears to ' have concluded that the list parai graph of 'Seoi-1-7 of" Thd Impoun<i- ! ing,4Qt r j.884/ 1 ' empqwers.it to sancn tion the grazing of cattle .on road?, within its district. We are of opinion that the section named does not, nor does any other existing statutory pro vision * entitle the board to give any such sanction Warden Sanson, "said that after seeing the : opinion, he had had a talk with Mr Esam, who tcjld him that he had looked up the old Acts as interpreting 'the latter ' part of section 17, to see what could be the meaning of it,, and he was of opinion that the reference m the Act of lSS^wag made to meet the arrangements; fwhich had existed at &ie tiuje^of the': ; passing of the A.ct;v Mr EsSiii advised the rescinding of the resolution", ■ because, if it stood, the board would become liable:' jointly with the owners of the cattle for damage's*, iridase of atiy ,accideni through, such cattle grazing pn,the r stree|:s.. J t The he (Warden Sansom) thought inignt be got over by rescinding the resolti'tioh, and empowering tfce.rang^r riot to impound cattle belonging to those settlers who 'were' willing to pay into ihe bank the sums mentioned m the resolution. The\chairman said that although the." board hadno power, to consent to the erection of fences, they had power to consent to the erection of gates. If .tlie. settlers intimated their willingness to pay the money so accruing from grazing into the bank, the board would give perniissiotr to erect gates/ ' but not otherwise. Warden Bishop* I always ; understood . w ith _„ the late, Cba'ifihari that'the bda\'d had tin pow- ! ci* other 'tku)i to giye permission to, erect gilterf. \^'arddh'S*NSoN r moved, " That the resolution re grazingcat^-' ..tie m the townshij^^.of Sansi)n, pass-, ed; at last' | me,etiu^" ! be ' rescinded.' ' The motion was secoritled, audcarried. , WarUeA Sanson theii mbveU a resoln'iion ufstnictihg 1 ttie ranger \{6s'tt>- irh-i 'pHiJn'd'dattle or horses m thetowil~ ship belonging to settlers^who would pay into tlie Bank of New Zealand to the credit of the Public Hall Fund, the rates or rents for grazing cattle ) on the township roads mentioned m the resolution passed at last meeting and since rescinded ; and to impound -all cattle belonging to such settlers as declined to pay. This, resolution, he said, would relieve the board of any responsibility, and answer the: same purpose as the resolution just; rescinded. After, a discussion, the motion having been seconded, was put and carried.