“THE GRIFFITHS’ PIGS.”

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 246, 19 July 1928, Page 1

“THE GRIFFITHS’ PIGS.”

SOME REAL SNORTERS. I Slip Blocking a Culvert. “ Re Griffiths’ pigs rooting on f l *". public road,” wrote Mrs. C. Hopkins to the Matamata County Council in a letter read on Friday, “it is now over seven months since I wrote and informed you, and no effort whatever has been made to keep their pigs at home; although when I spoke about them Mr. Griffiths said he was trying to keep them at home, but this is far from true. Instead of this, I have seen him dog them with three dogs on to the road should they stray on to his property. For the last three months they have slept in fern on the roadside, and just inside property formerly occupied by Messrs Keyes and Crapp, but which has been unoccupied for nearly two years. Several chains of roadside is ploughed up by the Griffiths’ pigs, which number five full grown sows, one large boar, some twenty or more stores. There is also a pet ram. Three weeks ago we had to right several posts in Crapp’s fence on the roadside, as the telephone was thrown out of order through the pigs rooting up the posts, and now again there are several chains of fencing all undermined, and posts propped up where the Griffiths’ pigs root the fern which comprises almost their sole living for the last three months, with the exception of grass on Crapp’s property. “ It is quite time this nuisance was stopped. Please let me know if the council has power to stop it, as speaking to them takes no effect. If you come to see the damage, we can prove they are Griffiths’ pigs, and not ours, whether it is T. Griffiths, or Mrs. Griffiths, or Griffiths Bros. Our pigs are all rung, and are kept in one paddock on new grass and turnips all the winter. I may also mention that there are three slips on the hill road, ( and the one on the last bend near the top is blocking the culvert.’ ’ Cr. E. J. Darby: Does the writer mean that speaking to them has no effect on the pigs ?

Councillors considered that it was a matter for the ranger to attend to, and so adroitly got “out from under” by leaving the matter to Mr. Jordan to investigate.