TO PREVENT HORSES FROM FALLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 7

TO PREVENT HORSES FROM FALLING.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—Your article in Thursday's paper dealing with the danger of horses falling I during wet weather in some of our (streets is of such general interest that jit is a plain duty to point to a simple ■ and proved remedy, the use of corru!gated shoes. During come fifteen months jspent in England, where the roads are , chiefly asphalt or tarred macadam, on I only one occasion did I gee a horse fall. jFor some weeki I was driving almost idaijy in a,part,of the countryjWhere the. j roads were both steep and slipIpery. and was astonished at the way lin which horses retained their footing by means of these shoes, which are noir commonly used. I am convinced that anyone here »-Tio tried them for town work -would never revert to the plain shoe.—l am, etc.. JXO. DAWSON. (To tbe Editor.) Sir.—Re article in Thursday's "Star," viz., wet pavements, will you permit mc to suggest that our City Fathers take a lesson from the methods used in many large cities at Home. Where the roads are payed with wood set or asphalt, •the road is swept during the night; then early in the morning a coarse gravel Iβ sprinkled along the part of the road so laid down. The gravej being ground up by the traffic, prevents the surface becoming smooth and slippery. Consequently this greatly lessens the danger to horses coming down.—l am. etc.. ■H. HOWARD.