SUGGESTIONS RE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1219, 22 April 1880, Page 3

SUGGESTIONS RE PLEURO-PNEU-MONIA.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — I have recently noticed in your columns several suggestions bearing on yie^Q-taqdifiOß& aid itp/ei&didajaen, in ' uoine of which I entirely concur. A correspondent,' rfgnidg* ''Hitaaelf l "S. 5.," says, "If I may be allowed, I would respectfully suggest that" 'two members of the- South, Auckland Cattle Board resign their places, to be filled by one member fiom Raglan' and 6ne from the Thames Valley or Waitoa, foe*',' &c." -Kow I.entirely agree with "S. S " that one member should resign, and as he did not give an opinion afc' to whd the retiring members should be, I will ventdre to, suggest one> viz., ,W. 81, or more plainly, Captain Steele. That the latter gentleman possessed ntdre than an ordinary amount of cool audacity is shown by his continuing to occupy a seat on the Board, w.ljeu he must 1 certainly know ■ that 1 nothing he could say or suggest would have the least weight in 1 the opinion of any settler in this 1 parfc of 'the colony, whose confidence H he has so justly forfeited, and it is a won- ' der that the Cambridge Farmers' Club, as a recognised body, has not demanded fromthe .Government his lempyal.from the Roard, and the appointment of spme other (man •in his place. Probably "S. S." would like to see Mr Fantham's name struck off the Board, but I'think that is hardly likely. Ido not know the exact feeling in the Cambridge district , t regarding Mr Fantham, but I know that " J generally 'iii'tVaipa, h*e is' considered a head and slioAil&ei'a above any oiheV man now holding office in connection with the cattle disease. For my own ,part, although I have no acquaintance with ' the gentleman in question I have long considered him one of the most useful and straightforward members of the Cambridge Farmers' Club, and I am sure that ' during the present crisis he has shown himself, by his energetic and impartial conduot, worthy bf the important seat he occupied and deserving the thanks of every settler in the pommunity. The other members I hope are doing' their duty satisfactorily, though the course adopted by the Chairman and his firm in sending to Auckland market 200 head of store cattle to be sold, and likely distributed over the country, without first having been isolated, and inspected for at least a month, is more likely to diminish than increase the confidence of the public. "S.S." says "that the Piako Swamp Company may submit to have, their property destroyed — of 'course for the benefit of their neighbors {t)rr^ others will be found who will justly resent it." Now .fth#tesfl"B.B;*)Gatf say about the Piako Swamp Company aid their implied liberality the better. The public have , heard sufficient of their patriotism in conneotion with the. pleuro -pneumonia, and are beginning to realise the faot that these gigantic land . associations are not altogether an unmixed good,. True the expenditure of capital did for a time •' create' an 'inflated prosperity in the adjacent townships ; but .what of that if our, herds are to be swept aw Ay by virulent diseases introduced by these so-called benefactors, with whom the loss of a few oattle and the ruin of worthy settlers are but secondary considerations when compared with important regotiations in land obtained by favoritism at a nominal price, of at' more pounds than it "• cost^flfmlings, No • doubt the company f eonld'well afford to sell their land at the ■ <prUe ' reported and give in the pleuro along with-it. :/>/>• - ".» ' Another auggpifrioti J haye, noticed and entirely approve W that an iuapeotor

should at onco be appointed for Waipa". , At present, in order to forward fat Btook to Auckland, a certificate must be got from Mr Runciman, and who living at a distance-knows wberojtfyfindjum, or v?hen_ they may get. (hejfrjwwtla passed P 4 Tft© injustice, tooYofoSudling trie settlers wfth the cost of stamping out the disease after it has been thrust upon them is simply iniquitous. If the Government, by lax inspection and neglectjijgjfo j imported cattle froth fin mreoveu country, = has allowed speculators to infect our stock, surely they (the Government) should bear the expense of eradicating the disease. Whairwith 1 the infliction offines, fees, and all sorts of inconveniences, together "with taxes and hard times and the threatened loss of their stock, verily the farmers in this part of the Colony are on no bed of roses. — 1 am, &c, Te Awamutu.