A PROTEST FROM TE ARUHA WEST.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 323, 8 December 1888, Page 7

A PROTEST FROM TE ARUHA WEST.

(To the Editor). Sir, — Will you kindly insert in your paper these few lines re Mr I aylor and his grass : — -Some nine or twelve months ago be was pleased at getting his neighhours' cattle on his grass ; now, when they have got. ; a hauct it is difficult to keep them off, and the grass n ferreil to --is quitea common.* 'Mr Taylor, I^dnre. say, is like many of us : he is not getting any younger, and possibly not any stronger, and as ho has met with great disaster in his garden through frost and •blight, I. think the effect has put him to this extreme of impounding. If he would consider over the importance of this matter he might see that it is against reason. I ask any honest man tho question, " What Te Aroha West would be to-day if we had treated each other the. same as he is doing?" As he believes in the droppings from cattle to he good manure, he should retain the 1 cattle, and it would save him extra labour in coming round our roads and private property to pick up the same. Now, Mr Editor, I have sufficient evidence to show that on the 4th inst. he (Mr Taylor) caused to be impounded off Mr Johnson's land ten head of my cattle, which is a serious matter. He could not get any of the Te Aroha West boys to do his "dirty work;", he had to go to the east side to find his mark. If he ■would be neighbourly he should strive to imitate his neighbours ; that is, fence or abide the consequences. To conclude, if Mr Taylor had utilised the great command which is left for our guidance, " Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you," we, in Te Aroha West," would be the same now as we have always been — that is at peace. I trust Mr Editor that I have not trespassed on your space. — I am, &c, J. Jackson. Te Aroha West, December 7th.