CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43365, 29 August 1908, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor.

Sot, —May I crave audience for a word or two. I have waited in hopes that some more able pen than , mine may move in this matter, viz., the disturbance to which the congregation of St. Marks’s are subject through the barking of that assemblage of dogs kept adjacent to the church. Last Sunday evening, for example, the din was unspeakable. The service may almost be described as a pantomine with canine accompaniment. The vicar, one can but regard as something more than human, long suffering, and of great patience. For myself, I had visions of a heavy stockwhip or a six-chambered revolver. The owner of these dogs, parading the streets w>th a mob of from twelve to fourteen -uncleanly mongrels at his heels is a disgust and degradation I think no other township than Te Aroha would so long permit. If the nuisance of last Sunday evening is allowed to continue I venture to prophesy the congregation of St. Mark’s will grow smaller by degrees and deplorably less.—l am, etc., A Disgusted Church-goer.