Readers Write

Northern Advocate, 30 September 1944, Page 4

Readers Write

Mr E. Woolhouse is to be for his letter to the “Advocate jjMpi September 25, dealing with trespi! pigs. He has d«L

TRESPASSING PIGS

great service toVw .farming communn* I do not think there

are 5 per cent of the farmers understand the law as it stands today uj regard to pigs and fencing. Most farmers have been acting under a misinterpretation of the law, as I have been doing. I know a good many farmers who have destroyed their neighbours’ pigs for a mere fraction of the damage done to my property. I have had the damage that was done this past few months assessed by a competent farmer at £lO5, but it appears from a recent ruling of the local magistrate that farmers with grievances such as I have can expect no redress from the law as it stands at present. Farmers may turn their pigs on to the road, and unless neighbours affected have a seven-wire legal fence around all their properties there is no redress. Another man who was in similar circumstances to myself, waiting the outcome of my case, has had to retire, although he had all ;his garden turned over.

I endorse Mr Woolhouse in his comment that if this is the law it ought

to be amended, and I may add, it should be in language which all may read and understand. —A. COUTTS.