Correspondence.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4161, 22 August 1881, Page 3

Correspondence.

LTTTELTON PIG BY-LAW. TO TIZ EBITO* O* TIE STAB.

Sib,— So Councillor Webb is going to repeal the Pig By-law.which presses hardly, he thinks, on certain pork-loving citizens. Now, I want to ask, has it evor pressed hardly on Councillor Webb himself, all these years he has lived in a state of chronic breach of it ? Has it been hard on the numerous others who hav» lived likewise, with perfect impunity t Has it affected even the individual whose atrocities of abomination mainly led to the passing of so stringent a by-law, except perhaps when his pigs have plaoed themselves in too close contiguity to the local lawyer P Do not said pigs to this day divide their attention between the public streets and private gardens with just impartiality P And all that seems to happen is exery six months or ao a mild remonstrance from tho Council through its Inspector, followed regularly by a report next meeting that Mr Blank has promised to abate the nuisance, i.e. till the trouble blows over. No, Councillor Webb, no by-law in Lytt«lton will ever press hard on any offender so long as every breach of it, instead of being followed up as a matter of course, is made the subject of a discussion between sides in Council, before the officar can be instructed or allowed to take proceedings. It may interest the impartial public to know that this dreadful by-law simply forbids the keeping of pigs on sections less than twenty acres, and then not too near the neighbours— in other words, forbids the keeping of pigs on allotments which are no longer rural. That is all.— Tours,

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