BULLS ON ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 7

BULLS ON ROADS.

SHOULD THEY BE HALTERED ?

TEST CASE AT OtUNAKE,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Bulls on roads and the degree of responsibility for their control were the main considerations at the Opunake Magistrate's Court yesterday when W. R. Wright was charged'with allowing a bull to wander unattended. After hearing evidence Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., said the matter seemed so important in the Dominion that he would give his judgment in writing. The law pertaining to the control of bulls woiild be made clear for whatever the fate "of horses might be bulls could be displaced. Counsel .for the . prosecution quoted authorities to show that a bull should be considered a ~ dangerous animal with savage propensities, and therefore should always be under control on roads. Counsel for the defence said it was absurd to suggest that every bull taken along the roads should be tethered or haltered. Cows with bulls in the lead were common in Taranaki, Mr. Wright said he clef ended the charge with a view to ascertaining what was the public policy. If;;the case went against him it would amount to a. restraint of trade and no person could take two head of cattle on the roads without two men in charge. Mr. Wright possesses nineteen bulls.