EXTENSIVE DOG RAVAGES AT GAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1739, 28 August 1883, Page 2

EXTENSIVE DOG RAVAGES AT GAMBRIDGE.

Numerous complaints have been made within the past few weeks to the police authorities and the local and district governing bodies about Cambridge, of the extensive damage which is being done every day among the sheep-flocks of the distiict by clogs which are allowed to prowl about the country at large. On the Fen Court estate, within a few days no less than forty sheep have been disposed of by dogs, the owners of which, through the dogs not being collared, the aggrieved persons are unable to ascertain. Almost every sheep-farmer in the district makes the same complaint, and the grievance is aggravated by the fact that owing to the dogs not having collars, (though some of them may be registered), there is no way of coining at the owners for redress. Mr Bailey, of the Auckland Agricultural Company, came into Cambridge yesterday and laid the matter before the chairman of the town board, when it was agrped that the Dog Registration Act should be enforced in every particular, and the local police officer was instructed accordingly. A notice has been drawn up and posted about the town district of Cambridge, to the following effect :—": — " All dogs, registered or unregistered, found at large without collars, in the town district of Cambridge, on and after the Ist proximo, will be destroyed ; and when known, the owners prosecuted. This action has been taken in consequence of the depredations recently made by dogs among the sheep." It is to be hoped this warning will have the desired effect.