The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With Which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880. Tussocks.
The' Borough Council have at last seen fit to adopt a suggestion.we made some time ago, and that had been made often before-—namely, to enforce the by-law regarding the clearing off of tussock from unoccupied sections.. Before they do so, however,- they have resolved.to set a good, example to pro prietors tussocky sections, and are to call for tenders for stripping their own unoccupied reserves of their “ yellow agony.” Mr. St. Hill is a spit of steam tug to the Council’; he is always drag ging them along with him in some new direction of reform, and it is to him that we owe the initiation in ihe Council of the anti-tussock movement. We shall be glad to see the tussock curse re pealed, and feel grateful to Mr. St. Hill for thus setting about it. But, while we entertain gratitude to him for his step and to the Council for follow ing him, and while we heave a sigh of relief tlat a few more days and all danger will be removed of conflagra tions arising from spontaneous com bustion or other untraceable cause amongst the winnowed tussocks, we regret, at the same time, that the wisdom of the Borough Council cannot devise some scheme by which the word “ unoccupied” may be changed to its opposite, and dwelling-houses and dwellers therein take the place of the grass that is to be swept away. One pleasant reflection in the matter, how ever, is that the removal of the tussock will supply a few days’ work at least for some of the laborers about town whose time is anything but fully employed.
