WANDERING CATTLE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4310, 29 August 1921, Page 2

WANDERING CATTLE.

Sir,—“Interested” asks me “tb state clearly whether or not the law re allowing cattle tp wander should be observed or not.” • His question reminds me of a question put to an American editor which elicited tnis reply. “Your question stumps us 'the darndest, The more we think "the more we can’t tell.much might be said upon both sides and neither side be right. Upon the whole, we think we would and we wouldn’t, just as we -thought best or otherwise.” -

But the enforcement of any by-law was not the subject of my last letter. The subject was “To fence or not to fence—that is the question.’.’ It is possible that in my advocacy of a protective fence I may have given offence by a misuse of scriptural language, but if I have ‘beaten the band” I have certainly kept to “my muttons” —I beg pardon—cattle wandering question. I am advocating a prevention instead of curse policy, which will promote harmony where “Interested’s” will produce ill-feeling and»involve the Council and some unintentional offenders in unnecessary expense.

It is not necessary for me to pursue the subject further; time will tell ..whether I am right or wrong. In the meantime I may point out that the fence posts removed from the Wesleyan Church corner have been used to fence in another corner section not many chains away. Now why are they required in one l place and no.t in another, and more exposed ’ places. “Nuff sed.” “How prone is man obedient tp his will To strain and magnify a seeming ill As ever-feady little faults to scan He si'ts in judgment on his felilow-man And off-times with perversity increased He cries “allowing wandering” when he knows the least.” E. N. DAVIES.