CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1312, 4 May 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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A FREQUENT COMPLAINT.

[To the Editor of the Herald.]

Sir, — Several times already, have persons residing in Ohilders Street, complained through your columns, of the damage to property and annoyance to people caused "by a certain mob of horses, which are daily, morning and evening, driven along that thoroughfare, to and from a paddock some distance out of the township. Now the above complaint has been of no avail so far, beyond the "Town Council" fixing certain hours, after or before which the horses are not to be driven, which injunction is more or less punctually obeyed. >

Now, Sir, this does not remove the grievance, which consists in this, that the horses are driven in the wild mob style, instead of being led, tied one to the other by the halter, as they should. One man leads and the other brings up the rear, aj; a rattling pace—refractory l^orses break from the mob at the crossings, wjiqti they have to be headed and pack; and further some horse or horse's ejiter on to the side path, lately made at much expense, and damage it, as also the trees planked by the residents, yniich latter injury cannot be repaired in a day. But the worst of all is the danger to children, with the discomfort and distress caused, to pedestrians, alap people in traps, perambulator female drivers. Yet the wonder is that no accident has yet had to be deplored. ■ ' • Who should be made responsible, the ownej of the horses, or the Town Council, who countenance him. Both the one and the other— l say. And there is, vfi excuse for the practice, on the plea 'of any. .difficulty to do otherwise. Another mob of horses, is wont to be taken along the same course, but they are duly tied one to the other. If their owner can do the risrht thing, why oannot the other owner follow hia example 1 He will have to do jo eventually, I trust "Sir ''that your editorial pen,, will endorse th^s remonstrance.

I am, &0.,

A SUFFEBBR.

[P.S. — Why should quiob, rather neat, Childers Street be afflicted with this nuisance at all, the wide highway is the proper thoroughfare for such rough traffic,]