CATTLE ON PUBLIC ROADS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 5

CATTLE ON PUBLIC ROADS.

(By Toteerapli,—Press-Association.), , ■ . Auckland, August 13. . ' Eight' residents of tho Mount Wollingtoli district were before the Auckland. .Polico Court to-day upon ohargcaof having 1 allowed oattle to Stray on publio roadsi ' 1c . Mr, Russell, instructed by the: Mount Wellington Road Board, stated that tho .defwidants had boon'granted •licenses by; tho local body for the grazing of their cattle upon, the publio roads. The Road Board had found it essential to odopt-the lfcensfld grazing system far the purpose.of keeping down;the igrass., •. Mr. (fatten remarked LtSat if: oittje, ivero actually a nuisance to the'public the. aefsndants were liable to fines, - Mr. Russell i . Tliat would, assuredly be interfering with the functions of the local; body. Mr. Cutten That is a matter, of opinion. J..S. Dickson, a resident of- the district, stated' that he had foiled, to eccuro the impounding of stray cattlo bcoause in tho poundkeeper's opinidn tho licenses allowed, the cattle oil the' roads. Mr. Cutten held that while thcv liconsos might have formed a'good-ground.-of defonoo. in respect to an information. • under 'ho Impounding Act, they/were not so ,under ths. Polico Offonces Act. He: thought•. the' Act which empowered local authorities" to-, issue licenses was never intended to apply- to tricts like Mount, Wellington,, ;■ ■ St ; Each of the defendants was • fined ls. nnd 10s. costs.;