SLAUGHTER HOUSE REGULATION

Waikato Times, Issue 844, 13 November 1877, Page 3

SLAUGHTER HOUSE REGULATION

Sib,-On Monday 1 h>Bb my servant'wa* ! r . ; gammoned, r befgi& thecßesident Magis- '.„ let attd " 2ad^eiauwa l .ojt.iH.By laws of CqfmtWs; ■* yi«W 4 n J l i«iP erßo<l w i ho ' 8ll »" .. , 'slanghMor J ';-' goaf, og &,gi,M purposes iof ■< '"'" - sale, Barter or phalli on con- . vioMpn, forfeit far every : killed or 5 * uo 'disposed of, has nob prooared a licence for'doing sp.' This V j, kill » ehe6w goat/pig'6r beast, and ..•:;; able hdaietiolfl, should,' ; ~ let his ne'ig'aboOrthave! a with < the' ..:'-;iUQdetßtab'ding>>that<iihei waT'to i.-. anotherTjoipt in exchange,' he is liable for ~.,. every,.suc>,crime/to the.;above named' iJI J Miy 'anT ooatsi "The Ssj in suoh oases njagfrtrate vroa not having pwjfir'to mitigate thp ppnajty .1 f6r ft fi<stl offence. )o j :-It is a venyjgbddiprinoiple to act upon, that all persoDß are supposed to know the. - lawof thela¥d th|ylive n ib,J)ut, uVtbe" l'j '6 'iatrietime I ,tt'fs'-also 4^very\fioodprinoi. pal to base-all laws on common senfre, and J .i.no.sajie.ntanow^uldhthink3he was comJ mitting.a crimebyJjillmg a pig, ;and give, : J.:: 'his helghbbuiWpaYt, and receiving'a'pirt' when his neighbour does Jikewise. It is* an-bid established cu?torri to do so in the British Isles, in |all plher , _ civilUeqlparts Qflhe<gljobelejodpt in tue county of- -Waikato, New Zealand. ° * ~ I foavej represented thisomatter to* thV V*! \ ,Wa*katp>QouoyiCoi«ncU. asitHe; woYkipc ; pf tßiß. swe, fall upon some of our most^industridiH l . and useful ifchotmaj. be'struggl- ' jing'toforriija homeaiJfiOßgdaM*; {and if a •' ,'iewowe^were;prOKe^iiajr>fitii 6n«, say, ' - 'killing' half ( ,.a.do^^fttwkiagxiplgs.-and disposing of them, he would, therefore, .: be > malbtfed'in'» sum between j£3o arid ~; £4O, or, : perhaps more, resulting very« ' probably in total ruin, if he have a large" :v, family.;.' the complaint, a d if your paper has "given a trae <repartioK the'meeting, ultimately shelved the mitter with a kind ,of 'sari r kastio go*k '*l cant see the joke.; TJicl affiirisof very serious import, wnieh I 1 know to my cost My servant's base was dismsssej, but.it whsia very.-ekoeptional one. I was absent at the time,' and all arrangements,,, were ;lrit till myj return. When, knowing the by-law, I gave the? , meat to the par<jy/wh«t : h»d' reo§iv«di ib,' 'and tihii s escaped infringing the hydatid)) the penalties i,attached. I am* fto, Thomas BWniTB. . | QVJ