Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3489, 19 April 1890, Page 2

Correspondence.

Where are the Mce?

|TO THE EDITOR] Sin—lt is a queer way that the law is enforced in Masterton. All summer long people have been shooting ducks, the reports of their guns being heard at the police station, but no one has been made to answer for it. Orchards have been robbed wholesale in and around the town, and it is reported that residents go out at. night into ihlffi' country with horses.and sacks returning loaded with apples, bui. no.one has been caught, If abolish' is without an occupant for a few weeks, every pane of glass in it is broken unless the windows are boarded, but no ono has been oharged with the offence. A few schoolboys engaged in the • customary seranading of a newly married, couple, are pounced upon by a member of the force and their names taken preparatory to being' summoned. This looks as if the law was not the same for the weak as the strong. If the local police are going to hemorq strict in the future than they have been in the past, they should at least treat all alike. It would be more to their credit if they had obtained the names of poachers and orchard robbers and left schoolboys alone unless they were engaged in some more,harmful occupation than beating old kerosene tins.-l am, &o,| •« _ Faibpuy, k\