RESIDENTS OF FENDALTON HAVE COMPLAINT TO MAKE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18889, 12 October 1929, Page 9

RESIDENTS OF FENDALTON HAVE COMPLAINT TO MAKE.

A complaint regarding the indiscriminate driving of cattle through Fendalton was made to a reporter this morning by Mr H. Kitson, a member of the Waimairi County Council. He supported the movement to have the Addington yards shifted to Sock burn. “ As the County Act stands,” said Mr Kitson, “ County Councils have no power to define stock routes, only to limit the hours over which stock may be driven through the county roads. In consequence the residents of Fendalton have bad to put up with cattle being driven on the roads in district whenever it suits the drovers. “ Residents have been considerable sufferers through cattle being .shipped from the North Island, disposed of in the yards, and driven north to the freezing works. At a recent conference with the City Council it was hoped that the council which has power to define the stock routes would block the driv» mg of cattle through the heart of Fendalton by stopping Bligh’s Road and also that the drovers would realise that if they wished to have reasonable access for driving their cattle they would take care to keep away from the more populous parts of Fendalton. ‘‘Mr F. S. Scott and myself have been appointed, on behalf of the Waimairi County Council, to interview the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon P. A. de la Perrelle, asking him that County Councils should in the future have power to define stoek routes. It is the determination of the members for Fendalton to put a stop to this menace Only the other morning, for instance, a drover came along with a mob of a hundred cattle as the children came out of school and anything may have happened. It is nothing unusual for residents to find traces of cattle having trampled pver their gardens in their absence, if jt has so happened that the gates have been left open.”