Pound Charges.
|IO THE EDITOB.] Sib,—Would not the appointment of a new public pound and poundkeeper be a' good opportunity for the Borough Council to take into consideration whether some alteration should not be made in the pound charges ? I understand they have the power to alter the fees allowed by statute so long as they do not exceed them, and I certainly think the sustenance charges do require some slight alteration. In a place like Gisborne, where hay is plentiful and cheap, two shillings and sixpence per day is an exorbitant demand for the suetenance of a horse, and other “ cattle ” are charged in like ratio. When by accident the horse remains in pounds week, the absurdity of such a charge becomes still more apparent. Why, stabling is much cheaper I—and better I Perhaps that explains how the pound pays so well.—l am, etc., Past Victim.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 2
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147Pound Charges. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 2
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