The Dunstan Times.
CLYDE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12. 1881.
Bcnca'h the rule of men entirely just The pen is mightier than the sword.
The rights and privileges we enjoy under our glorious constitution are all very well, and no one can possibly support the full exercise of them so long as they are not mischievous or likely to clash with other rights to a greater extent than ourselves, but where they do clash we must raise our voice, and demand a proper definition; of the rights we refer to, and which are most mischievous, not alone provocative ot bad feeling but dangerous to life and limb, is that of the liberty of allowing pigs to roam at large. To our certain knowledge, several accidents have lately occurred within an ace of causing really very serious results, if not the loss of life through these useful hut objectionable animals. Before something worse than a fright occurs, those persons in whom lay the power to abate the nuisance should exercise their authority. Wo do not mean that the law, if one exists, should be carried so far into effect that Mrs Pig should be confined to her sty, but we hold, in the public interest,that she should be kept off the main roads, more especially where the roads are narrow and overhang dangerous precipices.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1008, 12 August 1881, Page 2
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