A NOVEL PROSECUTION.
Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. William Small was charged at the Police Court to-day, on the information of Francis J. Stewart, with planting trees alongside the boundary-line of his property at Birkenhead without the previous written consent of the occupier of the contiguous land. Mr. Selwyn May, who conducted the prosecution, said he believed this was the first case of the kind ever heard in the colony. Defendant had planted some pine trees between his and Mr. Stewart's property without obtaining the latter's consent. Mr. Dyer, S.M., convicted defendant, and ordered him to pay £3 Is costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 2
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101A NOVEL PROSECUTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 2
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