DOG REGISTRATION FEES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 8

DOG REGISTRATION FEES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —At the monthly meeting of the Alanawatu County Council a letter was received from the Kairanga County Council asking the former council to consider the question of the Dog Registration Act being amended to give power to local bodies to charge a maximum fee of £2, the class of dogs to which the fee should apply to be left in the hands of the councils. AVould any of the councillors who voted for the motion —Councillors AlcKelvie, Pearce and Perrett —inform me, in the event of this amendment becoming law, what breed of dogs they intend should be. subject to the maximum fee, or how they are going to determine what breed of dogs are sheep worriers. Some days ago between Paraparaumu and Paekakariki I saw a sheep dog tearing the wool off a sheep it had just worried. The same (week between Pukerua Bav and Plimmerton I saw two cattle dogs worrying a ewe and lamb in a paddock alongside the railway line. At various times I have had several dogs which I have used for pig hunting and the only dog that I have had occasion to shoot because it was inclined to worry the sheep was a cattle dog off a cow farm at Awahuri. —I am, etc., AV. A. GORDON, Milson Line, October 12, 1932.