CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 4 September 1908, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

---- - -- ♦ The columns of this paper arc always open to settler* to give publicity to their requirements and grievances, but in the case of a reflection on a Government official, it should be remembered that such officials have not the privilege of reply. As long as correspondence is confined to crilicieing the system, we shall be pleased to publish it; when the criticism extends to the officer, in the interests of fairplay, we must declinc.—lEd. K.C.C.]

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —On account of the practice of some of the residents allowing their stock to wander about the roads and streets- -and even instances are known where gates have been lifted off hinges for the benefit of such stock if is urged on the County Council as a reason why a public pound should be erected inTc Kuiti. To my mind ihe provisions ef the •' I'ublie Works Ail. 190.V are sufficiently drastic to deter such local pests from continuing sueh practices, if" sufferers would only have suflicient moral courage lo come forward and prosceuic, or truck some of the straying beasts to flic To Awanuilu pound. A sum sufficient io procure a site and erect a pound if if wore available, would be mere advaniareous to the township a( ihe pros-ati time, if spent on some- o( our sf roe's. Vor the benefit to owners of" wandering stocK. permit me to quote front i.lie shovemom'.ioned act: Section 1 .>;'.: "f'ven.person who decs any of (he things upon a road -(Sub-section 0.) : i'ermiis say cattle to be at large without progi r guidance, or to wander, or to la-Iter.led or grazed, uppn !he road other than in the ordinary course oi driving siock, slial be liable lo a line not e\c. eding five pounds. '". Section:.'.'■•'■■: "it caitlo are found straying on a road which is fenced on both sides, or has a i\ nee on one side and ihe sea on (he other side, it shall lie lawful for the local authority having' control of the road or for any other person t<> cruise such en file io be taken to the nearest public pound, whether in or out of Ihe district in which ihey are found straying, to lie dealt, with as in (he ease (if cattie lawfully impounded. " i yivo the abovelegal information grafis. in the hopethat the residents will make full use of it. and save us for the 'present, from the expense o) a public pound, which, if we- had one, would seldom be J used after (he first two or three pound- i ings.- I am. etc.. j J. OJvMSBY.

—■-■■■■.■ ■■•■.'.-._?-; L.:r.r: > Ai the public meetiiur in To' Kuiti I on Tuesday even in;:; when it wa* pro-.' posed to pay the township delegate's expenses 1o V\'(dlii):;1"i) by public snlw. script-ion. one of those present, entered an emphatic protest, and declared thie subscription nuisance was too frequent in (he place, lie the necessary expenses should he paid out hf rates, as (his. was (he only way b;y Which ilie expenses would 'ho share;fl equitably. li was pointed eiit dial tilt* expenditure of the raies in such a\ manner would not be sanctioned by the J authorities, whereupon the eonscien- j tious objector was pacified and olVerod J to contribute his quota to the fund. / For Children's Hacking Cough at I n.trht: Wends' Great Peppermint J Cuvt\ ts 6d and 2s 6d. i