A COMPLAINT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —I desire to call the public attention, through the medium of your columns, to the dangerous practice adopted by butchers of hitching up their horses’ heads to the rails in the public thoroughfares of our city. There is a narrow street, I think it is called Old, Custom House-street, at the corner of which there is a butcher’s shop, and it is no uncommon thing to see two or three horses hitched up so as to command with their heels the whole entrance from Willis-street to this narrow street. And there is another shop further up Willis-street, at the side of which there is a lane, into which the owner of the shop takes his horse sufficiently far as just to leaveits tail and heels visible, so that any one walking carelessly along the footpath is within range of its heels before he is aware. Certainly these horses are generally so much overworked as not to have much play in them; but as they might sometimes buy a new horse, and as that new horse might be fresh for the first day or two, the practice, as I have said before, is a dangerous one and ought to be put a stop to.—l am, &c., Guardian. Wellington, April 16.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5012, 17 April 1877, Page 2
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220A COMPLAINT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5012, 17 April 1877, Page 2
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