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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 44, 19 January 1842, Page 2

We have received two letters on the inconvenience occasioned to the inhabitants by cattle being suffered to roain at large in the streets, particularly a bull of most formidable size, who occasionally uproots fences, enters gardens and regales himself on their contents. Now to those who take pleasure in the iuuocent recreation of gardening, this is a sore evil, for he not only destroys the trees, plants, &c., which cannot perhaps be replaced, but also the pleasure the owner derives in their cultivation and successful progress, which no sum adjudged under an'action of damages can repay. We know that a year since it was His Excel* lency’s intention to erect a pound, but it was strongly objected to by his then legal adviser, and finallydrcpped. But as, now, the learned gentleman who at present occupies that post does not qive in the town, nor to our knowledge keeps cattle, we trust no opposition will be made to the just wishes of the majority of the inhabitants, who earnestly call upon His Excellency to have an impounding act drawn up and put in force, by the erection of a suitable pound.