WANDERING STOCK.
A VIGILANT RANGER
The local ranger’s lot, like the policeman’s, is not a happy one. Al nearly every sitting of the local S.M. Court, he calls in the assistance of tlie Magistrate to uphold lhe borough hv-laws, and is becoming quite expert in conducting prosecution- and offenders will need to be very vigilant to trip him on technicalities in future. He haled several local residents before Mr .J. L. Stout, S.M., at yesterday’s sitting of the Court. M. E. Perreau was charged with allowing a horse to wander and pleaded not guilty. The ranger said the horse found its way into his garden and did a certain amount of damage. Mr Perreau said the horse had been tethered in a paddock which adjoined the ranger's property and ho suggested that some one had put- it in the ranger- property as a joke. The Magistrate said the ranger must impound animals off the road and dismissed the ease.
A. Eveleigh, charged with allowing cows to wander had a wordy altercation with the ranger and argued that lie was repairing a fence and the cows were under his supervision until the joh was completed. Pined a/- and costs 7/-.
E. Boyle charged with allowing a hor-e to wander pleaded guilty and was lined' 5/- and 7/- costs. lx. Carter, who did not appear, on two charges of allowing stock to wander was lined 10/- and 7/- in each case.
R. Bryant pleaded not guilty to a charge of allowing two lows to wander in Purcell Street. The ranger -aid a resident had telephoned him that the cows had wandered on his property and had damaged the lawn.
The point was raised that the stock were <>n the County road. The Magistrate held that the borough by-law had no jurisdiction over the Comity road aud as the ranger could not say definitely whether the cows were impounded within or without the borough, the ease was dismissed, the Magistrate remarking that if one or two offenders continued the practice of allowing stock to wander they would be fined a “liver” each.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2496, 21 October 1922, Page 2
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349WANDERING STOCK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2496, 21 October 1922, Page 2
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