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Northern Advocate, 24 November 1888, Page 3

fWe are not responsible for the opinions of correspondents. Writers must give their names, not for publication but as a guarantee of good faith.) (To the Editor.) Sin, — For several, weeks past there has been what I may call a geneial lamentation concerning tlie Inspectors of sheep in tLis province and in this part of it especially, concerning Inspector Elliott's dismissal. Sometime since I received a printed letter setting forth part of the cause of his dismissal, which I thought a very strange method of proceeding, to ask of flock owners, when it is taken into consideration that tho present Sheep Act has been in force for eight years. Let any sane man read it, and if he is a flock owner, and selling tat sheep, and charged three pence to sixpence for dipping, when the Act states that the charge shall be ono penny; and the number of ye<ars that they have managed to keep the scab in the province and in the country, and the loss entailed on the farmers in consequence of not being able to sell their fo heepprofit, as the Australian market has been closed against us simply on account of scab. Of course Ido not mean to say but Inspector Elliott has dove the best he know to get quit of the scab in his district, and according to the report his district is clean at present ; but what ahout the number of years it took to get it clean. I have no hesitation in stating that six years since, the majority of these Inspectors ought to have been dismissed, aud a large number of them ought to have beon paid with twenty lashes of a thing they call a cat, and let them find some occupation that they were better adapted for, than defrauding flockowners by their contemptable ignorance of the business they were paid for. Indeed I think I am right in stating that there has been scab about for tho last 18 years up to lately, and^ when a person reads the lamentations overt^dß dismissal of these inspectors in the Aj^^^HH and the " Auckland Weekly Nc\vaJ|^H^^^H numerous flock-owners and nvs^BjaHfl General Assembly taking _y^tßl^M^BS_a__\ to indite these few hu£^^^B^B^^B[^^^B there must be a _S___\__\f_\\_\\\\\_\\\\\_\^^B^^Bl^B^^HS same way of _]jU^^^^H____W^K^BßßSßkM be wtou g,]__^^^B^^Ußß/^KBBBnB^BL Oovernr^_\^S_________W____Wß^^BßßK^M then^^H^Hflß^BHßHßH|n|