CORRESPONDENCE
“OVER THE FENCE.”
The Editor,
Sir, —The Government are advising their Inspectors to use discretion and sensible judgment before taking Court action against supposed offenders and I think it is time our Borough Council took the same attitude and instructed their Inspectors to do' likewise.
Yesterday I was “on the mat” for water waste. The facts were that a pipe burst at my residence, and whilst getting a plumber to mend the job an Inspector came along and I am called to Court. Well if that is an offence on my part, why. don’t the Borough Council prosecute themselves when one of their own water pipes burst.
In my case I was not convicted and fined, but still had to pay a guinea for costs, which ,to me seems silly as to be proved not guilty of an offence, and then have to pay costs for a stupid action at law is to me well over the fence.
The Borough Council seem to have a good many Inspectors, yet none of them have had time to notice a leaky tap, the water from which is running over the footpath in the main street, and has been doing so for quite a long I am, etc., H. H. LIDDLE, Masterton, March 24.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1939, Page 6
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