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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1172, 11 October 1882, Page 2

The Borough Council, despite the fact that the bye-law relating to driving horses through the town does not work well, is obstinately determined to abide by it. What their reason can be for this obstructive mode of procedure except sheer obstinacy, we fail to see. It W’oufd certainly be a very great inconvenience to the inhabitants if the livery stable keepers combined to raise the price of livery and trade prices generally in consequence of the action of the Borough Council in this matter. Cr. Townley said at the meeting last night that this bye-law was passed in order to stop the driving of stock through the streets. If that is the ease how are cattle to be got down to the wharves for shipment? Will the Borough Council recommend that tl|ey should be “ led?” Joking apart, we think the byelaw must, in common sense, have been passed to prevent the indiscriminate driving of stock through the streets, as endangering life and property, but by no means to interfere with driving so discriminately and cautiously performed as to avoid all such danger, and which is absolutely necessary to the daily trade of ratepayers who are carrying on the business of livery stable-keepers. It is to be hoped that the Borough Council, on mature reflection, will see how necessary it is that certain concessions should be made, under certain restrictions of time, &c., to allow of men carrying on their trade without interference or hindrance, while yet the-bye law, in good faith and to all its legitimate purpose, will stand intact.