WANDERING STOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 7

WANDERING STOCK

TIGHTER LAWS URGED O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day. "The highways are for transport and not for feeding stock," declared Mr. A. E. Renouf (Hawke's Bay) when urging a more severe penalty for wandering stock before the North Island Motor Union meeting. The following resolution was passed:—"(a) That the Justice Department be requested to take steps to hasten the decision of the Law Revision Committee in relation to the, union's representations that the law should be altered to place, on stock owners the onus of disproving negligence in respect of wandering stock; (b) that the Main Highways Board be requested to expedite the decision in regard to the respective rights and duties of the board and local bodies as to the impounding of stock wandering on State highways and the delegation to local bodies of the right and duty to prosecute for breaches of the law in relation to wandering stock; (c) that the Government be requested to amend the Impounding Act, 1908, to provide for increased penalties, droving fees, and impounding rates to such extent as will act as a deterrent, and that in making this request we support similar representations from the Counties Association."