The Borough By-laws

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 258, 16 December 1903, Page 4

The Borough By-laws

' HOUSES IX THE STREETS. On Mopday evening the Borough Coupcil rsceivcd a deputation from carriers and livery stable keepers who asked thai" the Council should reconsider their decision to enforce the Works Committee's recommendation ifts regard to< "driving horses along the borough streets from paddock to •table ill the morning and back to the paddock at night. Mr M. Jones acted as spokesman, and asked that the same privileges be granted here, as in larger centres. In Wellington horses were allowed to be driven loose in this way between midnight and 7 a.m., and in Auckland between ■lO p.m. and 8 a.m. The Mi\y«r moved that the matter bereTerred back to the Works Committee. This was seconded by Cr. Brooking. In moving this resolution, the Mayor said he had seen great damage to Powderham Street, near Dr. Homes' corner, caused by stray horses. He was sure the Council dkl not wish to press heavily on horse owners, but they must keep horses off the footpaths, and the enforcement of the by-laws was tlte only way to dp this. Mr Jones said 1 !)|*\ proposed to drtVe the horses down Morley-sttreet, and then down Devon Street, where they could not damage footpaths. One of tlhc deputation said that a filling near I>r. Homesj was very sou, ; a cat would lnake a hole there.

The Mayor explained to the deputation that they would lx> expected to conform to the conditions imposed in the ir-solution of the Works Committee. The Mayor, in answer to further representations by the deputation, said he could ha*e shot a man the other day—« driver for one of the .gentlenx-n now waiting on the Council. H« saw this man, in charge of ia team of bullocks, deliberately driving down t'.ie new looluath on Carringtcm Roa-d, using the water-tables as a break for the wheel of his vehicle. Some of the drivers seemed to have absolutely no respect for the footpaths. He motion was aldopted, and tlte deputation withdrew.