STATE HOUSES AND DOGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23718, 26 July 1940, Page 10

STATE HOUSES AND DOGS

Sir, —Some weeks ago I was one of mjiny State tenants of the Cadman estate, One Tree Hill, who Bigned a petition regarding the above, for ultimate presentation to the manager of the State .Advances Corporation. The petition duly went forward, and since then several tenants have written to or otherwise contacted the State Advances Corporation, with the same unsatisfactory result —nothing, except assurances that "the matter is in hand," or words to that effect. One man even wrote to the Minister in charge of Housing with a similar result. The nuisance created by dogs is bad enough in any community, but here, where protective fencing is conspicuous by its total absence, the damage to young shrubs and plants is so creat as to quite discourage one from doing anvthing in the way of gardening at all. In a book of rules appertaining to the rental of State houses we have it in black and white that 110 pets or livestock are to be kept without the special permission of the corporation, and then only if they fire in no way a nuisance to the neighbours. "What exactly do they mean„by "a nuisance"? There are terriers, spaniels. Scotcli collies, Pekinese and many others of doubtful origin. To say they are a nuisance to the neighbourhood is really being povite. Dog-tiked.