BRUNNER BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1916, Page 3

BRUNNER BOROUGH COUNCIL.

(To the Editor.) ; Sir, —I notice through your columns that you always report the proceedings of the various local bodies from Reefton to Kumara, the Brunner Borough . Council excepted. Why, Sir, is this thus. Surely there is an item or two that would interest the ratepayers. If there is nothing of importance to report, why its existence? The.;.progressive councillors who now hold ! office were loud in their denunciations

of the policy pursued by the old Council, but strange to relate they (the pro. gressives) are adopting the same silent methods as their predecessors. With the introduction of a. brand-new set of councillors, ■we were promised that there would be no more wandering cows, horses,-calves, and all ages and sexes. What do we find? —.the town overrun with all sorts’ of pests, and a powerless Council of real live progressives. If there are not enough laws on the Statute Book, or not enough by-laws in the charred remains of the Council’s books,, to effectively prevent the nuisance, why nut advertise the township as an animals’ highway, and thereby allow “equal opportunity for all”? At present, a few owners of animals . observe the law that is supposed to- exist, whilst others enjoy a. monopoly and convert the town into a grazing area and general farmyarclj. For sthe ‘benefit of ratepayers generally, other, matters of municipal interest may be introduced in a future article.—l am, etc., . OBSERVER.