DUDLEY TERRACE PADDOCK.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 8

DUDLEY TERRACE PADDOCK.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln to-night’s issue of your paper appears an inspector’s report re the stock receiving paddock in Dudley Terrace. I would like to know if he has inspected it at all. The only water on the place is a quagmire after rain, when the cattle are wading knee deep in mud, and have to keep moving to save themselves from getting bogged, which a sheep did a fortnight ago and was left for two days until another mob was brought in.. If, as stated by the inspector, there is only one night a week when stock is brought in, it would have had to stay another five days; but the paddock is always occupied twirp and sometimes thriefr a week. At the time of writing it is hardly possible to hear any one speak in the house for the bellowing of the mob, which is the second this week. Instead of five o’clock, the inspector mentions as the time of stock being brought, it is generally when the school children are returning home about three o’clock; and the “five o’clock in the morning” is when the majority of men are going to work—about 7.30 a.m. Last summer the smell from this paddock was abominable, and with houses pretty well surrounding it, is is a menace to health as well as a nuisance. If something is not done we shall have a recurrence of it again this summer. Two years ago a lorry load of dead sheep was taken from this paddock. These had died from want of water and were allowed to stay until the smell became unbearable.—l am, etc., A RESIDENT. '29/9/27.