Government veterinarian Jonathan Nisbett has suggested tougher laws for the working condition of horses.

While there is no law regulating working conditions for humans in Bermuda, Dr.

Nisbett noted the importance of looking after the health of horses, particularly working horses.

Yesterday, he told The Royal Gazette that he hoped to pull together a group of horse owners to decide on minimum standards.

"There needs to be better enforcement and we have to look at areas like how much the horses work,'' Dr. Nisbett said. "We could regulate the number of hours they are allowed to work.

"The temperatures they work in should also be looked at and shelter in St.

George's when they are between jobs.'' The poor condition of many stables has raised concern of animal and horse lovers here. Dr. Nisbett confirmed that only last week he and a member from the SPCA investigated a complaint about the stables at Canal Road in Pembroke.

"There are several (stables) that are not in good shape,'' Dr. Nisbett revealed "If we come to agree on some minimum standards, it will be easier to enforce.'' Dr. Nisbett also pointed out many people who kept horses knew when they were keeping the animals in less than adequate conditions.

"I'd like to take a new look at trying to solve the problem,'' he said. "If I could get horse enthusiasts together to put pressure on stables, then we could press the need for legislation.

" I'd like to get the impetus to tackle it from the horse industry instead of it coming from Government.'' OBJECTORS AWAIT WORD ON PAGET CONDO PROJECT PLN Objectors await word on Paget condo project Objectors to a Paget condominium development are still waiting to hear if their appeal has been granted.

The 31 objectors, to the Development Application Board's decision to grant Bostock Mews Development permission in principle to build on Bostock Hill, appealed on June 14 to an independent inspector from overseas. That inspector, Peter Cummings, has since filed his report, a Planning spokeswoman reported.

It is now before Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson.

Bostock Mews Development plan to build five three-bedroom condominium units on two lots at Bostock Hill. The group has been represented throughout the planning process by Entasis Architecture and the sole listed developer Calvin Simons.

The objectors argued architects used their own zoning lines for the two lots of land, one of which is zoned Residential One, the other Agriculture Conservation, instead of the zoning lines determined by their client's surveyor Bermuda Caribbean Engineering Consultants. Entasis dismissed BCEC's zoning lines in favour of their own, which they based on the cultivated land existing on one of the lots.

But the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries conducted their own survey of the site and placed the zoning lines in the same place as BCEC's survey and these show that one of the proposed buildings for the site will encroach on arable land.

Other concerns are the risk of increased traffic, noise, general overcrowding and the introduction of a type of development which is not in keeping with the largely residential neighbourhood.