AN APPEAL TO THE COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 3

AN APPEAL TO THE COUNCIL

so Tffiß n>noa. Sir,— ■'Wo have beard from Socialists, Conservatives, Kdormitas, Revolutionary Federation's, and Liberals that New Zealand is essentially a land for the dev£lopment\>f agriculture and pastoral pursuits. Now lam prepared to guarantee that tha best land 'in New- Zealand from a cow and horse grazing point cf view" exists at Island Bay. _ The dairy farmer now sitting in session at I?ulmerifcon North would be surprised at tho number of cowb, ealvee,' and horses tarried to the quarter-acre section at Island Bay. Now it is generally admitted that land which will carry a, cow ov a cow and a-half to the acre is good land, yet at Island Bay there aro people who owji three, six, and a dozen cows (besides sundry calves and horses) who only, <»',fn a quarter of an acre of ground. 1 and yet the percentage 01 buttey-ial that they produce is very high. It is gelling so high in iacfc tiiat ih« aeEid«iLa,ot Jskud Bay an> begiunicg to feel thu.l th«jy ought- (with thf co-operatica o£ the lang'er of fhe City Council) exhibit ontr of the cow& that they find vi their goi Idons in thft morning at th« Jalmcreton North Show. Island B,ay rj^cple are loug su3enng ; they do not mind strap-hanging homewards in the- cars that they uwnj they do not rttind n periodical flood ; they appreciate to the full all that tho £ity Council has done- for them :md v.liat it_ is going to do for them, even to removing the beastly gotee that causes the drains to stop up, but they aTe getting abso"fed tip" with allowing other people's cows and horses (not forgetting the calves.) from grazing en their pet gardens. Sir, as an advocate- of the "planting tho three" business I would bv> glad if you would assist us iv putting down this stray cattle business. Xhe exigencjjes of nature .ttereujud. tI&J, Ibla^d

Bay residents ahciild be particularly patient in watching a tree grow ; they cuddle it from the southerly (with a patience that Dr. Truby King does an infant baby) ; they protect it from the northerly, but if the butcher boy leaves the gate open the ever butter-fat-pro-ducing-cow gets the prize pittosporum crassifclum, the pohutukawa, the coprosina, besides leaving footprints of the times without end on the front lawn. I hope after this pathetic appeal which Mr. M'Laren as a tree lover, as a lover of useful people, and also believing in the principle that love's labour should not be lost, will come out and view our select and happy cow and horde family from the seat of the motor-car provided for our. worthy engineer/ and give such relief that the ranger will bo appointed from a resident of the Bay who loves garden* but not cows. Being a true disciple of agriculture allow me in all humility to sign myself, LOVES HEAET LIES BLEEDING. 26th June.