GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPALITY.
Per Press Association. Wellington, May 15. Judgment was given this morning by Judge Cooper on a motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the Napier Borough Council to supply water from the municipal suppiy of the borough to the Government buildings at Napier, or, alternatively, for a write of injunction restraining defendants from cutting oil the supply. . c The Court held that the Government had a right to expect I lie municipality to supply a public building with water from the public service so long as the Government was prepared to pay a res sonable charge. Defendants had, without reasonable grounds, cut off the supply, and the Court bad power to make the injunction claimed. An order for an injunction was issued, with ten guineas costs. His Honor, during bis judgment, expressed the opinion that the borough water meter did not register correctly, and that the Government had been asked to pay for what it did not consume.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 16 May 1907, Page 2
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162GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 16 May 1907, Page 2
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