WILD CATTLE AT REMUERA AND EPSOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9103, 11 July 1888, Page 3

WILD CATTLE AT REMUERA AND EPSOM.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Allow me space to thank you for your paragraph setting forth the serious side of this question. Yon had certainly given full prominence to its comic element, and as I narrowly escaped being charged by the ox you referred to in your Friday's issue, as I was walking in private grounds with my little boy, I better appreciated your second account. The fact is that many parts of this district are quite unsafe for women and children on at least two days of the week, and the saleyards should be removed further from town in the interests of the general public a? well as of those who reside in the neighbourhood. The needless distances over which cattle have now to be driven increases the cost of meat to the consumer. The cattle have first to be driven from the country into the yards, then driven across country for several miles to the abattoirs, and finally carted in carcase form into town. If there wore abattoirs, say at St. Ann's Bridge, the saleyards

would soon be removed, and whilst all annoyance and risk to pedestrians in this ' neighbourhood would lie avoided; the meat) would reach the consumers in a less fevered and much more wholesome condition than it does now. I know for a fact that school children have now to be kept at home on market days on account of the reckless way in which cattle are driven along the public highways. Surely the Highway Boards are not powerless to interfere. If they have the power it is sing'ular that it is not exercised in the interests of public safety.— am, etc., ' r • , A Resimbtt. Epsom, July 9,1888. '