Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 78, 6 January 1887, Page 3

Correspondence

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THE AORANGI BRIDGE

TO THE "l>riOß OF THE STAR. Sir, -In reference to the Aorangi bridge question, and the aunexation of the road from the Oruua river to Buuuythorpu by the Manchester Road Board, 1 think one great advantage to be derived from the latter arrangement will be — that a Ranger will be nearer than at present. It is too much to expect the Palmerston man to be here often, but some one should be here, aad the sooner we can get the services of the Manchester Board's Hanger, the better. Anyone travelliag along the road from Aorangi to Bunnythorpe would wonder where on earth the pigs came from. If an accident happens to a rider, no one would own the animal who caused it, and what is of more account during the dry weather is the way in which the water courses are polluted, and made simply " sloiuihs of despond" I do not know if a Hanger could tiike pigs to the pound, but I wonder if he is at liberty to shoot them ; if so, lie might try his luck at Taonui creek, as that beautiful creek is deliberately spoilt by the vagaries of a recent settler's porcine friends. I do not see so much harm in the cattle and horses of the neighborhood eating off the surplus grass along the road, as very likely by so doing they help to preserve us from a great calamity, viz. : fire ; and besides, I think it is perhaps as well that some of those who have no paddocks should have the run of the present road ; but there is a line to be drawn. There is now living on this line of road a man who deliberately turns out 2 or 3 horses, about the same number of cows, 6or 8 large pigs with a number of little ones, and a flock of geese. This is coming it pretty strong for one individual. As pork, or matters Porkery, are of such importance in this neighborhood, I humbly suggest tliat those persons who have fenced in a considerable space from the railway reserve, or roadway, or whatever it is for their gardens, might also have saved a space for a few pigsty es. These horrid pigs destroy the only r->ad we have, both in summer and winter, and wallow in and pollute our most beautiful streams. — I am &c, Gkuntee.