FENCING DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 July 1907, Page 3

FENCING DISPUTE.

The Neiv l'lvuiouth -Magistrate's Court was occupied on Tuesday morning with the hearing arising out of a summons under tin; Fencing Act. The evidence on both sides was voluminous, at times loud and rapid. The parties were F. A. Wood and Mrs Margaret Halkot Omata.and the trouble, like a lot of other troubles oil the farm, began with blackberry. The evidence showed that tlu' blackberry pe.-il had hold of the properties occupied by iM>tli parties ami tint plaintiff had gone iu expensively ~"br piat** wherewith lo I keep d<>w 11 the weed. The goats declined to be kept at home by ail ordinary fence, so he served a n<>ti<e on his neighbor to erect a dividing fence having seven barbed wire*. Mrs Hall delivered a notice, stating her iutentioii «;f erecting | a fence of plain and barbed wires alter- | nated. Wtom and top wires being barbed. Defendant and her Sons had noted objection to barbed wire, but to meer plaintiff agreed to have this amount oi barbed wire and no more, 'lhe dispute, which Mr Ouilliam. counsel for defendant. :i- a ">.|ualid ipiarrel which fhi'iild n«-wr have be.-a brought ii> take up the lime of th:* Court.'' conceitied the failure of Mrs Hall to comply with Wood's requisition from the terms of which he refused to budge. I'n lci examination bv Mr Weston, coun-:'! for plaintiff, wiiii"sst-s >iaied that nothing 4iort of seven barbed v.ires would keep goat* confined, whiist a witness for the defence ?aid that even such a fence as that would be u?ele-- for the | would clear it at a leap. Against this ■ the defendant urgfld that a fence nt |

*>\cn barbed wirr- between hi* propert, | 'fd rxiii'tli'-r neighbor's had been found | quite sufficient, whereas on Hull« <dde Iv- 1 j had had t<> keep his ehildren chasing uj* 1 and down to keep 111'.* goats out ot the defendant's farm. The latter, he alleged, wanted the goats to stray, so tint they l-'Try on h< i farm. Mi QulUiaui :td tint th- 1 H-n r asked for was unrea- -• 11 and <al!«'d evidem-e to shew IMI ih-re ua« none of the kind in I lie ill-nit -'h'T i'M'i pL'-pioof fences a I'd lil it t!i" Hull- Tt * I been quite prepaid t, Jfi'-T the ordinary *l<»^ ; il fence/' Tin? Magi-fratc revved his dei-i- : on.