MORE CONTROL ADVOCATED

Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1947, Page 4

MORE CONTROL ADVOCATED

STRAY DOGS IN TOWN AREA Disgust and. indignation at the way in which dogs were "permitted to roam at will through the business section of Levin" was expressed by a property owner to "The* Chronicle" yesterday. He gave the names of six other owners of premises in Oxford Street who had voiced a similar cqmplaint. "Apart from a hygienic point of VieW, these dogs constitute a nuisapce to' pedestrians and are a po'tential danger to motorists," he contended. "Firm steps should be taken by the Borough C'ouncil to enforce owners to keep their dogs on a leash." he added. You see the same dogs every day , cluttering up the footpath or sprawled in shop doorways. Some of them are without collars and they appear to have complete possession of the town. Every day I have to' detail my girls to wash down the footpath in front of my premises, and scrub out the doorway. It is disgusting and disheartening, besides which my staff have epough work to do without having the unenviable task of cleaning up offensive matter left behind by these dogs. The whole frontage of my building is permanently stained. The complainant said he did not know whose responsibility it was to exercise control over thiese strays, but it - was definitely a matter requiring investigation by the health inspector. Such laxity was not permitted ifi any other town 01* city. There should, he maintained, be a by-law giving a ranger authority to deal with them, or if such a by-law already existed it should be enforced.