THE GREEN ISLAND BYLAW.

Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 14

THE GREEN ISLAND BYLAW.

Had the Green Lsland Borough Council passed a by-law to ‘leal with bulls which are separated from the various mobs at the yards and afterwards run together through the borough, no one could have blamed thorn. When bulls are knocked about in the yards and get excited, as they sometimes do, and afterwards start fighting with each other in the streets, the wider berth they are given the better. No one can say with any certainty what they are likely to do. But in- reference to ordinary fat cattle, it is quite a different matter. The absurdity of the action of the borough in making unnecessary, tantalising, and prohibitive by-laws in regard to.them has been freely commented upon by the farmers, who keenly resent what they consider an injustice. Cattle-droving through the Borough of Green Island has proceeded uninterruptedly' for the last 40 years without any serious accident having happened. The school is situate well on the main road, and the children never need to go near it) unless to cross it; and they are easily choose their own time to do that. Most of the city supply of beef has to go through the borough, and there is no other read it can go. Is the borough prepared to suntjly another road outside of the congested area? By its short-sighted ’action the borough has incurred the displeasure of all its neighbours without the least necessity for doing so. The suddenness with which the discovery was made that cattle-droving through the borough had assumed dangerous proportions requires some explanation. The borough derives considerable revenue from the various businesses interested, and should not drive such revenue away. Except with the mobs of bulls, there is not a scrap more danger now than ever there has been. The safest road to meet a mob of cattle is one on which there is a formed-up footpath. The greatest difficulty would be experienced in getting cattle on to that footpath. The city, as well as the butchers and farmers, are all interested in this matter, and will have a say in it if prohibitive by-laws are enforced.