CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8193, 23 April 1898, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

♦ (TO THE BDITOB OF THE HEIULD) SIR,— I would like to know through your columns what branch of Government would be the right one to apply to to have an Act passed barring people from planting the like of maize and pumpkin crops too near their neighbors' boundary fences. I would suggest that an Act be passed forbidding small farmers from planting maize a certain distance from their neighbor's fence ; say, in the case of maize, it should not bo planted nearer than 10ft lo a neighbor's fence, and, in the case of pumpkins, not within half a. chain of same, from root of plant. This question is causing a deal of trouble at the .present time amongst small farmers, for at present it is the common practice to plant clean up to the boundary fence. Now fancy, in a dry season such as we are now having, cattle and horses running in a dry paddock with next to no feed, and a green crop of maize growing right to tho fence next to them, with only a very mean fence between them, and frequently pumpkins running right out amongst them. It is only natural that the stock will go for them, and will rack and destroy the best fence you might put between them. And all the owner of the crop will do is to kick up rows and claim for damages 1 Hoping others will take up this question and endeavor to prevent n lot of unpleasantness, — I am, etc., J. Kennedy, Makauri.