DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

DRIVING STOCK OX ROADS

[Per Press Association.]

Christchurch, September 14'

Mr T. B. Bailey, S.M., delivered his deferred judgment in several cases arising out of informations laid under the Riccakon Borough Council's bylaws relating to driving stock to and from Addington sale yards. The. magistrate said that the facts were not disputed. The defence raised was that the by-laws were ultra vires and unreasonable. After reviewing the evidence he had come to the conclusion that the .restrictions were unreasonable. Regarding the legal aspect he said that it was not at all clear that the Borough Council had power to limit the hours during which stockmight be driven along the streets. Power was given by the Municipal Corporations Act to prescribe the route by which cattle may be driven, but nothing was said about the times, and any power to make by-laws as to time was by inference only from other sections of the Act. All the informations were Counsel for the Borough Council said he could not, at this stage, definitely state that an appeal would be made, but he asked that in the case of an appeal the security required should be stated. The amount was fixed at £o !?8 for each case.