‘Wandering Stock Hazard On Roads’
(New Zealand Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, April 5.
Representations had been made to the Government from time to time concerning the dangers of stock wandering on the roads, but the Government obviously thought it better that people should die than that it should lose the votes of the farmers, the chairman of the Manawatu Automobile Association (Mr T. M. N. Rodgers) told the monthly meeting last evening.
The matter had been pid- ; geon-holed each time and a new line of approach was needed. Until there was a series of fatal accidents through this negligence, the association would get no results. It was often difficult to discover who ownfed the stock, and the only effective remedy would be a civil liability on those whose stock wandered
because of owners’ negligence. The penalties would mean trespassing would have to become very serious. Padlocks could even be deemed compulsory for boundary gates, members agreed. However, one member, who had once tried that because of trespassers, said it was not feasible. “We were forever losing the keys,” he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 3
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