WANDERING STOCK UNSATISFACTORY POSITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 79, 3 April 1914, Page 11

WANDERING STOCK UNSATISFACTORY POSITION.

From time to time complaints come up at the City Council of the danger and nuisance of stock wandering on the roads within the city's limits. Last evening the Outlying Districts Committee reported complaints from the vicinity of Mount Pleasant and Kelburne. The City Engineer reported as follows: — "The position of this matter is at present very unsatisfactory. The corporation has no pound for impounding horses, and the leniency with which the offenders are dealt with in the Magistrate's Court is such that no notice whatever is taken. It seems hard to believe that notwithstanding complaints of hundreds of ratepayers concerning the damage done by wandering stock that some more efficient' step is not taken to put down the nuisance. It is very difficult indeed for Inspector Greeks to do much more than he is at present doing. The city is of considerable area, and there are good opportunities for people to turn their stock out on to the public streets if they so desire. This will continue unml such time as the Court sees fit to inflict penalties which will have the effect of ridding the city of the nuisance referfe'd to." Tlie committee recommended that the City Solicitor be asked to press for hea.vier fines when prosecutions ase before the Court. This was adopted.