LICE-INFECTED SHEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 8

LICE-INFECTED SHEEP.

FABMERS AND DEALERS FINED. Sheep fanners and dealers had their attention sharply drawn to the requirements of the Stock Act, 1908, as to the necessity of sending only clean sheep to public saleyards, when Mr. W. R. Brown, Inspector of Stock for the Auckland district, proceeded against R. N. Austin, Jas. M. Wallace, P. Turnbull, R. McCorquindale, A. J. Kidd, T Gill and G. Ingram for exposing lice - infected sheep for sale in public saleyards in January, February and March ot this year. The charges were heard before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., at the Ota-huhu Court. All the defendants pleaded guilty, and urged in mitigation that they had bought the sheep under the impression that they had recently been properly dipped. It was pointed out that the law required owners to make certain that their sheep were clean before offering them for public sale. The Department did not press for a heavy penalty as each case was intended to act as a warning rather than as a puni aliment. A fine of 10/ with costs was imposed on each charge with the exception of those against Wallace, who was mulcted 1/ and costs on each of two informations.