WANDERING STOCK
PROSECUTION TO FOLLOW WARNING. At last night’s Borough Council meeting the poundkeeper reported that 35 head of stock had been impounded during the month of May and driving fees to the amount of 12/- collected. Mr. Neville suggested that in fu-ture-owners of stock found on the roads by night be prosecuted together with all persons whose stock is impounded twice in any month.
Cr. Cowley said he was not in favour of Mr. Neville's latter suggestion.
The Mayor: We must protect the motorists. They pay their licenses and taxes and stock on the road is a grave danger. Stock also does a lot of damage to gardens. Cr. Barron: It is just as much a breach of the by-law for a mau to turn stock on to the road in the daytime as it is for him to do it at night. Cr. Cowley did not consider the practice as dangerous in the daytime as it- was at night.
Cr. Thompson said the ..poundkeeper’s suggestion was a good one. He knew of people who deliberately put their stock out on the road. Or. Bangiheuea spoke with feeling- on the matter. He had only a day or so ago lost all his winter cabbages through wandering stock. As much restriction as possible should be put on the practice of road grazing, he considered. Cr. Robinson knew of fifteen cows having grazed for six weeks on borough roads and had at another time seen 200 head of stock grazing in the borough. He did not favour the poundkeeper's suggestion. The stock would keep the grass and -weeds down and if the Council allowed stock from flooded areas to graze in the borough then it should not make such a fuss over one or two cows on the road. Cr. Crowe said a man was always in charge of flood stock grazing in the borough. Cr. Robinson: Most of the trouble about wandering stock is due to lazy motorists. There are not two in the town who shut their gates. After further discussion it was unanimously decided that owners of any stock grazing on the road he prosecuted after auy second offence within three months.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4463, 10 June 1930, Page 3
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364WANDERING STOCK Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4463, 10 June 1930, Page 3
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