INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7980, 26 September 1887, Page 3

INGLEWOOD.

MEETING TO CONSIDER DISMISSAL

OF BANGER. [fkom our own correspondent.] A gpnkpal meeting of the ratepayers of the Moa district took place in the Inglewood Town Hall on Saturday, at 2 o'clock, to consider the advisability of dispensing with the services of the cattle ranger. The hall was crowded. The following proposition was read by Mr. Price, and seconded, "That in the opinion of this meeting, it is undesirable that the Moa Road Board should continue the services of the district cattle ranger." An amendment by Mr. John Broughton, and seconded, was handed up, and read by the chairman, Mr. H. Peters. Some time ago it was proposed here that a large sum of money should be borrowed for the purpose of forming and repairing roads; therefore before any more money be spent in the district, it was desirable to retain the ranger to prevent cattle wandering and destroying the work done on the BsveraLroadß, as the money might as well be thrown into the sea if the ranger wad dispensed with. Mr. H. Hunt remarked that he lived on a road where there never had been any mo ley spent, so cattle could do no harm, except to make a track to walk upon. He thought there would be very little of the borrowed money left after andothere had had their whack out of it. Mr. T. Jones, sen., said that if the ranger was retained he, with Borne others, would clear out of the district as Boon as they possibly could. I Mr.~ Claughtoa said that before tMe ranger was appointed the road he resided upon was quite impassable— but now he oould pass with perfect safety. Mr. W. H. Franklyn said some time ago as he and bis family were driving in his trap he was stuck up by a bull, which was feeding on the road, and he had to get the assistance of one of the settlers before he could get past. Mr. Price here stated that no man in the district trespassed more than himself eight or nine years ago, and if there had been a ranger then he declared be, could not have lived. He therefore considered it better > to do without a ranger now, and that it was preposterous for the Board to appoint a ranger without proper notification. The Chairman said, in answer to Mr. Price's remark, that a meeting of the ratepayers did take place, and that it was their wish that a ranger should be appointed. Mr. R. Stevena said it was well known

that he was the person who proposed at the meeting 1 of the Board that a ranger be - appointed, and that Mr. Price had no right to say that the approval of the Board of the ranger was improper. Mr. J. Broughton's amendment was first put, the Bhow of handß being 24. Mr. Prioe'B motion was put, the show oi hands being 75. (Great cheering.) The ranger having by agreement to receive one month's notice, it was proposed to pay him a small sum of money instead. Mr. "W. Duvis stood up, pulled out his parse, and went op to the chairman's table — on the stage. He then, amidst tremendous cheering and "Kentish fire," declared he would pay a part to have the ranger dismissed at once.