DOG REGISTRATIONS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 281, 22 August 1940, Page 5

DOG REGISTRATIONS

Tightening-up Of System Suggested

SHEEP-WORRYING LOSS

Dominion Special Service,

WANGANUI, August 21

“If the war is going to be won it will be won by stopping wastage, am! dogs are responsible for much wastage, ’’ said the chairman, Mr. W. Beat, at today's meeting of the Wanganui District Council of Primary Production. He moved : “That because of the national loss, estimated at more than 11100,000, by the worrying of sheep, the registration of dogs should be tightened up and that it should be made a punishable offence to have dogs loose between sunset and sunrise.’’ Mr. Peat said that the subject was so important that he would like to make the wording that dogs on properties more than a certain distance from the _ road should be destroyed. It was the job of the council to increase production, and here was an item where, if action were taken, definite good could be done.'

OUTBREAK OF WORRYING IN WAIRARAPA

MASTERTON, August 21

Sheep-worrying has broken out in the Wairarapa with the arrival of lambs. In the Mt. Bruce district a number of sheep were worried on the property of Mr. R. F. Buick, and in addition to the several ewes seriotislv injured. 14 lambs were killed.