AN INTERESTING CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association
AUCKLAND, September 3. 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 having previously obtained tho written consent of the occupier of the contiguous land. Mr Selwyn Mays, who conducted the proseution, said that he believed that 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 constnt to do so. Mr Dyer, S.M., convicted the defendant, and ordered him to pay £3 Is costs.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 14 September 1907, Page 7
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110AN INTERESTING CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 14 September 1907, Page 7
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