Nikau Notes.
f?BOM OVa OWN COEHESPONDENT. | Relations between some of our settlers and our worthy poundkeeper are rapidly becoming strained. Finding the grass in their paddocks rather short, and an abundance growing on the road, some of the farmers have determined to use the latter, to save the former. To accomplish this they drive their stock hither and thither, allowing the cattle to graze meanwhile. Whenever the poundkeeper hovers in sight the cattle, of course, are always moving. While this gratifies tho settlers benefited, it defeats the purpose for which other settlers desired a ponndkeeper, and these call on him to perform his duty, which he does under rather unpleasant circumstances. Perhaps, however, a compromise could be made whereby the settlers could tuxn out their cattle between certain hours on stated days in the week. This would benefit the public to some extent by keeping the grass conveniently short, and it would give those desiring it, a concession which, I hope, no one would begrudge them, providing, of course, the privilege ware not abused.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 92, 15 October 1896, Page 2
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174Nikau Notes. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 92, 15 October 1896, Page 2
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