A BROAD HINT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 103, 5 October 1878, Page 3

A BROAD HINT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Would you allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to ask Constable Gillespie whether the locality known as Rangitikei Line is included in his " beat " as District Constable of Palmerston North, or whether his friends in that favored locality are getting so numerous that, as some people seem to say, he cannot perform his duty there for the reason that he his afraid he would be obliged sometimes to include his friends with the less favored. Be that as it may, there was a time when he made an attempt to do his duty in that locality. Even then some thought he acted rather partial. About the time alluded to, there was a settler not a thousand miles off the Line who is not over-popular amongst his neighbours at the best of times. He was very anxious to get a requisition taken round for signature to try to get Mr Gillespie removed from this district. For what ? Well, would you credit it, Sir— just because the Constable was doing his duty, and that in a very mild way. But the person alluded to must have found other means since then of conciliating our worthy Constable. At any rate he grazes his stock by the hundred on our highway, and no one molests him. There is one thing I can speak of from personal observation, and that is that he is sharp enough with some about both stock and dogs. We have another little grievance that the Constable could assist us in were he inclined. I allude to the number of horses that are sent down nightly from Palmerston to annoy us, and if we complain to the owners the answer is— "They are only on the road ;" but with our own stock inside, and the general public's outside, our fences suffer sadly at times. Now, Mr Editor, I shall conclude this letter with the advice to Contable Gillespie to do his duty, and do it impartially, and he will then find his friends increase instead of decrease, and we shall not have our fences so often to repair. Hoping you will excuse the length of this letter.—I am, &c., A READER OF THE MANAWATU TIMES. Palmerston North, October 5, 1878.