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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1924, Page 2

Orit publicity ambassadors at Home, as the All Blacks have come to lie regarded, opened their tour on Saturday at Devon and won. The margin of victory II points to nil. was much less than in I!)(>.-) "lie'll the All Blacks were' in England, for cm that occasion the visitors accounted for Devon by do to I. There arc* those critics "ho aver that the 1021 Hug hy is not mi a par "itli that of l!)0d, and the recent decision will lie some evidence of that belie!, hut it is too soon yet to gunge the strength of either side. The season is young at Home, and the Now Zealanders have had bill a short spell after a .strenuous season here. They have also to he ace limathcd in the Oil (ciiiiitry. How ever, they have opened "itli a "in decisive in that their opponents did not score l . There is material of the best in the team and a line spirit dominant mining the men. '1 liev are nut to do their best and will he- keen to emulate the lllod team in its sweeping progress through the I'nited Kingdom. The All Blacks will attract wide attention at Home and le useful publicity agents fur this Britain of the .South,

Tin-: Horough Council seemed to take a retrograde step at its recent meeting hy the decision tmvuids leniency in regard to wandering cattle'. There was a p:onoiin:;i’d feeling in that direction. and if. as is proposed, the Pound is to he demolished, its re-erection in a •fresh site? is not likely to Ire l very soon. It, is not in the general interests of the community to permit wandering stork about the* street. Already as regards suburban roads there is a complaint that stock depasturing about the roans is a menace to motor fa/fir. and the danger will he greater in town where the traffic is more frequent. I here is the public nuisance also of the wandering stock camping oil footpaths at night, as well as the liability to raid private gardens and lawns. IL seems altogether retrograde to turn the streets into a long paddock for the depasturing of stock, and we hope the Council will reconsider its attitude on the matter, and return to the old order by re-electing the Pound as a deterrent, while steps should he con-

tinued actively to proseeute in all case" "here stock is found illegally depastured oil the public streets. At the Borough Council meeting last week, members lent a friendly ear to the representations of the .snwmillers regarding the sawdust nuisance in rivers. The Hokitika river has been used for about sixty years for the deposit of sawdust, and it was not till whitebait canning came to he general that the complaints ar,rse. 1 n ’the early clays there were two large mills on the Quay and the Maori mill at Artlmrstown. These three, apart from other mills which came into being later, for five or six decades now. ran the sawdust into the liver, and it is a fact that it is only in recent years the complaints became general. AVestlonc.l is lie*,v a. forestry reserve, nud if

is not it\ tin* interests of tilt- industry tlo.st<ncd to supply the whole Dominion with timber, tlmt the millers should 1-e hampered unduly. The fishing season is limited to a very short period in each year, but the miWing goes on all the year round, and the importance of the timber trade should be paramount. No doubt the necessity for this "ill be realised in due course, and the action by the Borough Council "ill assist in bringing the real position to the minds of the authorities.