RATS AND POULTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 3

RATS AND POULTRY

TO 181 EEIIO». Sir, —As, the City Council has pnt a stop to poultry-keeping, and Mr. P., Fraser has done his best in stopping the working man from keeping a few fowls, I would like to ask him a question: Would he rather have people living each side of his house keeping six head of poultry, or a stable on each side with six horses iri them? Now, Sir, there has been nothing said about stables. I say stables are the worst thing we have got about ns, both for rats and flies, and where you find a stable so you will find the rat. If the council passed a bylaw that every householder should keep a cat they would be doing some good, for the cat will kill for. food, and he will kill for sport; not to stop- the working man that has got enough land to run a cow from keeping a half-dozen fowls. If a man has got the ground big enough to run half a, dozen fowls, 'why,'stop him, as long- as he keeps it- clean? ■'Mr. P. Frascr says, " No; we will stop him." He..gets eggs every morning now, ' but the worker doesn't. Perhaps Mr. Wright will let the people of Molesworth-street, Hill-street, and Tinakori-road know whether the^ are within the brick area, or whether they can keep a few fowls to eat up the table scraps.—l ani, etc., ... v, ..■■■■■ „ • EGGS, Sth March.