THE SHEEP ON THE COMMONAGE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 15 August 1874, Page 2

THE SHEEP ON THE COMMONAGE.

{To the Editor.) Sic, — As your journal ia always open ta discuss any subject having for its object the benefits of the district, let me draw your attention to how we are being eaten off the face- of the earth with- sheep on our cattle country. Look at German Flafc and Bow-bells, where the fat cattle used tocome from, now swarming with sheep, and I don't think the owners are paying the assess^ ment for them. I should like to know what the Board of Wardens is doing -in this district. But look at the Waitahuna commonage ; there are no sheep allowed on it. If settlers had three or four fat bullocks now, they could get a good price for them ; but instead of that our cattle are poor, and the sheep are lying at onr doors ; no I think it i» high timo-that there was something done, or else we will have to sell the few cattle we have at a great sacrifice. I should like to see those people who ,take up agricultural' leases obliged to fence their land in before they areallowed to put sheep on it, for instead of their sheep being on their own land, they areat large on tbe commonage. I hope that you will insert this letter in your paper, and I hope that the "Warden* will take a, hint and dp something, or else we will have to send toWaipori for men to act as Wardens for us, for they have put the sheep off fcheir commonage. Perhaps they might oblige us by informing our Wardens how to proceed, for £ think, they are in a fog about wLafc they oughfc to do. I he>£6 6i*r Wartlen* will waken up after their* long sleep, for the Government in* formed the public in the pape.es that were- no sheep to b* allowed on the commonage after April last/ except onTtb&i ground ~whiph was leased at that time ; and here weare pested with their coming tp bur gardens.. If the Board of Wardens will not do something in the matter,- E. H. Carew, Esq., should Jbe instructed to write to. the Ranger to take legal r proceedings against those* parties who bare sheep on. the ground that I speak ofv — I am, &c. r A Suffebeb. [The above letter should have appeared in our last issue, but got mislaid. * The Board of , Wardens, \ve are informed, has up. power toact, not .hnviug framed by9-laws ; so that all the preliminaries required in the formation of a new i Board would require to be gone through. Why this has not been done w» cannot say,— Ed. " T.T."]