SPOUTS AND FOWLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 13

SPOUTS AND FOWLS

NUISANCES AT ONEHUNGA Two rather unusual prosecutions were presented to Mr. J. W. Poynton, at Onehunga Police Court this morning. The Borough Council summoned John McHugh for failing to provide his building with sufficient spouting. The council’s inspector explained that defendant, as the owner of two-storeyed house in Church Street West, Onehunga, had ignored a warning to properly provide spouting to his premises. Such neglect had caused a nuisance and inconvenience to the neighbours, who had to put up with recurrent flooding. A fine of 20s and 10s costs was the penalty. The second case is a prosecution of James G. Conway for keeping fowls at a distance less than 50ft from a dwelling-house in contravention of the council’s by-law. It appeared that the inspector had long received complaints from the neighbourhood that defendant’s fowls were always about the streets. After he had seriously cautioned Conway he discovered that the fowls had since been kept right under defendant’s dwelling-house. The menace to public health may possibly be removed by reason of the 20s penalty and costs inflicted.