A Woodlands Complaint. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2273, 23 September 1897, Page 21

A Woodlands Complaint. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — Your Woodlands correspondent in his lasb letter accuses the slaughterman of cruelty in killing a cattle beast. . Want are the facts of the case? Three bea«ts were in Ihe "crush"" to be killed. Two fell to the first blow, bat the. third got excited and rushed the gate, getting hi* hwid underneath the rails. Well, what; could you do ? The position was awkward for pithing, but it had to be done somehow, and this Wtis done after the third stroke, a»d it was all over with the poor beait in less than two minutes. Where is the cruelty, then P In tho matter of the church ch.*ir, I would ask your, correspondent if that is the wity to get any differences that may exist smoothed over ? The community is a small one, and if all were Presbyterians the matter wouM soon settle itself. If he thinks the new cboir are giving satisfaction, I only ask, What . about ' the " solos" ia the moruing ? Your correspondentfurther states that the • cheesemaker at the Hairy factory" is * only employed six _. month* • when he knows quite well that if a factory ia open from early in October to the middle of May thatTnakefl eight months, and' cheese can not under any circumstances be sent a^ay under a month old, and even after that you Require toattend to it dsiljv turning and regolating the temperature. In the early part of the season the timber for box making requires to be ordered and put in' io as to dry and be fit for packing cheese in, and firewood requires to be sob and stacked and. coal, and if "Your Own" thinks there is only six months' work in running » factory he is just about as far out as he "can be. • Your Own " ought- to have known that steps were being ttken to remove any complaint there might be with regard, to the drain because for the past three week* the work has been going on, and no matter from the piggery will now pas 3 iuto^he ditch in question, nothing but the washings from the milk cans, and there musk always l>3 some sort of refuse from any publio work. — I am, &c ,' Woodlands, September 18.

In response to a deputation of school teachers which waited on the Auckland member on Satnr* day, it was resolved that endeavours be made to induce the Government to amend the Teachers.* Court of Appeal Act, which, owing to the provisions of the previou3 act over-riding those of the measure lately passed, still allows teachers to ba dismissed at three months' notice withoub appeal ; to provide a uniform scale of salary foe teachers throughout "the colony, and a uniform, system of teaching and paying pupil teachers.

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