STRAYING STOCK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 51, 26 February 1943, Page 5

STRAYING STOCK

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION'S

LETTER

COUNCIL WILL CO-OPERATE "

In a letter to the •WhakataneCounty Council last Tuesday tlie Secretary of the A.A.A. stated that numerous complaints had recently been received by the Association, concerning wandering stock on county roads. There;' have been a number of near accidents as a result and the Association has taken the matter up with the Main Highways Board, which Board; on the 16th March 1939, passed the follow-

ing resolution:—

"That in terms of Section 9 of the Main Highways Act, 1922, the Board delegates to the Local Bodies named hereunder, power to control wand.ering stock on State and Main Highways within their respective .districts, such powcf to include-the appointment of rangers for the purpose, 011 the understanding that this delegation' does not involve 'the '

Board in the payment of any re-

numeration to the Local Bodies, from the Main Highways Account for ranging Avork, and that the Local Bodies named retain any revenues resulting from the activities of their rangers on State and Maine Highways." .

In most cases the Local Bodies accepted this limited delegation, but there were a few exceptions, and in. such areas wandering stock" is still

troublesome

The council decided that the Main Highways Board be advised that so. • far as the council \vas able, it will assist the Main Highways Board in the impounding of stock from State Highways'but would not take the full responsibility for such work.