TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1053, 4 September 1879, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL.

Sir, —In a previous issue you mentioned a case to be tried with reference to impounding at the Oamaru Pound. It is high time that some strict rules should be enacted to prevent lawless, or who might be termed desperate characters from depriving the impounders of the means provided for their protection. Those persons who make a practice of setting their cattle or horses at large, it may be expected, will resort to every mean shift to evade the just payment for damages their animals have done to other people's property. Such persistent individuals view Mr. Toms as their arch-enemy, because he is prompt in the discharge of his duty, which is most essential to order and the peace of society. It appears that the impounder, to be wholly prepared for such dodgers, would require to place a sentinel at the pound gate after the animals are closed in to prevent desperadoes releasing their cattle when the aggrieved person goes away for the pound-keeper. If the authorities are helpless iu devising some means to meet tliis case, perhaps, Mr. Editor, you or someone else possessed of acute conception will devise a plan to prevent those schemers making a perfect plaything of and abusing the protection provided for the public by this valuable institution. The authorities should make a precedent which would be a caution to all such who may either interfere with people taking animals to the pound or release them in the way I have stated. By inserting this note 3-on will oblige a constant reader. —I am, &c., Reform. Q