DOGS IN HAGLEY PARK.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12942, 9 October 1902, Page 6

DOGS IN HAGLEY PARK.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —With reference to the incident of a ma.n cutting a dog's throat in Hagiey Park, as it is not a' performance that most men would be proud of, will you kindly allow me to say, that I find that the individual

who committed this dastardly act was rib-t in the employ of the Domain Board, 'either directly or indirectly. Year correspondent “ Old Resident” should have read my letter through. I never dispute the right of the Domain Board to exclude dogs from the Park. As he has chosen to indulge in a ridiculous diatribe against dags in general, and nightmare yarns about .‘‘ packs of hungry dogs near Auckland,” permit me to tell him that the “ Old Resident ” is a far greater nuisance than all the dogs put together, and simply atrocious when he is travelling. Every solitary night he shakes all his neighbours up (for four blocks away) with his abominable' sonorous traction engine snores, yet has the cheek to write to the papers that he “ never ” gets any sleep because forsooth, the dogs bark. If he could only hear for himself, that long, beastly snout, with which he finishes hie performance he would speedily cease to wonder at hearing all the cocks crowing, and the dogs barking in his neighbourhood. —I am, tc., X RESIDENT.