GREEN ISLAND BY-LAWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16752, 21 July 1916, Page 6

GREEN ISLAND BY-LAWS

PROPOSED STOCK-DRIVING REGULATIONS GIUZIERS' AND BUTCHERS' OBJECTIONS A special meeting of the Gieen Island Boiojgh Council vsj.s hek 1 n'gbt, tho Mavir (Mr .J. Litmte.iv) presiding, to receive .i deputation from lliov do , rig business at ilii JiiiruMcle sdli-yard. who had objrctions u> r iihe .■njain-.r tliu proposed new by law limiting the Hours during- which cattlo !i.ii,'ht lie driven through the. boiough fiom 4i>) p pi. oa ori" d.iy to d a ni. on tlio followii.o; d.iv. 'J lif> deputation, representing \.hi jus hrar,d>e.s of Ihe meat trade, ninnberul ovei l do/on The Mayor sa:d (lie council v,n'lld he fjlnd to hear the viowa of th" di'pul LtKjii. In the interests of tin ratep,i3ei , the rounr.l could not allowthings to on a. at prrsuit, but, at the sarno \\int', it had no Nμ , -!! to h.-ifaf-s three who \,eve <a.rrvin~ on Uumih s afc the sa'.eyardMr T. Smith, .speaking a=! .i ratepaver and ,ii rrpiesent.itivo of tho'-e doinir business afc the siltrvaids said that the ii.i'sj|-jr of tho by law would cau'o preat incon\iinerice to th" trade, but he was sure tho eouncil desired to encourage the inrafc industry .is far a= it could, seeing that w> 1 irtfo a jiiimbpr of its ratepayer.-* were engaged m works connected v. ith the «aleyauK a,id the Abattoirs. IF eattlo could pot Ik- driven in tho borough between tho hours of 8 a rn. and 4.30 p niTthere would be grrat difficulty in complying with the regulation in ca6("- where lutchcrs wcio hard up for meat, and at hobd.iv tirnco, when ealeg weio held on other days th.->n Wednesdays. To irnpow> sueh resU-icfions as those proposed woi.ld add to the cost of meat to consumers. He thought that if a man went in front of <i lot of cittle when driven tlnough the borough, and another man followed in the rear, there would not be much 'lander to the resd f rt=. Mr Elliott pointed out that if the by : la-vr were pas'-pd laieri crras-iers would bo obliged, to r,.il their catti.' at Mo-ciel, and that v ould be expensive, and would not bo benelic nl to the bca c t^. Mr "Wiijtrht suggested that tho prohibit'on fotf driving should bo limited to beliv'cn 8 33 and 930 a.m. and 3.30 and 4 30 l> Ti., a.<> rlmso were the hours when children would b" going to or leaving school, jle i>rg(d that tho restriction proposed would ■bo \eiy objectionable when there was a. desire to meet tho deficiencies of a short pi-irket. Mr Todd pointed cit that the salevards v ere erected in 1877, when the boro.igh was not to populous as at present, and tlwt residents elected their houses with the full knowledge of the danger they ran, if thero w.h a danger. Mr Crosby Morris, representing the Dunedm Sileyards Company, sa-id that if it had been known to the shareholders that such a by-law as that now proposed would bo brought forward it -v;as veiy probablo that tho extension of the borough so as to lrclude tho saleyaids would haro met with opposition. Mr Barber (Christchurch Meat Company) said he hoped that it the by-law were passed sheep fhould be exempted —The Mayor replied that they were exempted. Messrs Sutherland and Kirk, on behalf of gra/iers, suppoited tho objections raised by previous speakers Tho Mayor expressed his uleasuro at the friendly tone adopted by tho deputation, and said there had been at least half a dozen accidents in the uoiough. recently ownij* to the careless manner in which cattlo had been driven through the streets. The bylaw , as now framed, was proposed five years ago. but they had not carried it, on tho understanding that drovers would send a man in front of their mobs and another bphind ; but there had been an amount of c<l relessnesb shown recently that was hardly to he borne by Green Island residents. Tho city and St. Kilda. had by-laws forbidding the driving of cattle through tho streets between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. Mr Wright raid that cattle wcro constantly driven from the Peninsula in tho hours named. The Mayor said that was onlv done ae a concession, and, of course, the Green Islamd Borough would have the game right to make concessions, =uch as allowing cattle to be taken from the saloyards to the Abattoirs if thev were not driven alons; tho main road. 'In all fairness to the ratepayers, they inu c t, however, have the legal power to deal vv.th careless driver". M_r Smith thanked th« council for the attention given to tho objections brought forward. The Mayor intimated that the suggested alterations' as to prohibited hours would ba carefully considered bv the council