WANDERING CATTLE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 92, 17 April 1883, Page 2

WANDERING CATTLE.

The ranch vexed question of the Wan- ■ deringof horses, cattle and other lire stock upon onr highways and thorough- , fares, and the office of Ranger to keep our streets clear of such wanderers by driving them to the pound, has not yet beea settled in any way that oan be looked upon as satisfactory. The doing away' ■ with the Borough rangership,. and thp saddliug of the responsibility of keeping; _ our streets clear upon oar solitary police constable, who has already quite enough to do without any eztra duties ef that kind, is an arrangement which we thick will not do much towards effecting a .satisfactory remedy of the evil ao much complained of. It is obviously impossible for Constable Prioe, with afi fcis ' other duties connected, not oaly with Feilding, but with many other places mi " the district, to be able to lay hia band upon every animal that may happen tb> be at large iv so wide-spread a Borough as our own, and to run them into the public pound. It appears from tke . instructions he has received from Inspector James that such ia his imperative duly, pending the appointment oi a Ranger by our local municipal antbori-i ties, and who have already passed -fe; resolution in Council, informing- him that ■•., they will " expect him to keep the streets, clear of all stray cattle, small and great,'* : a thing which we repeat it is utterly impossible to do. At any rate this work could only be carried ont on a very small scale, and that in the most frequented ■ parts of the town. As the principal grievance complained of when tiie late Ranger held sway was the fact of animals being found in the pound when wanted otherwise and elsewhere, , we would suggest in the absence of some better remedy that owners of stray cattle be proceeded against in the ordinary . mode, without taking the trouble to impound their cattle.