CRUELTY TO HORSES.
SOUTHLAND CONVICTIONS.
"DREADFUL MENTAL ATTITUDE."
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, Wednesday.
In the Police Court to-day Charles Arnold and William Robert Braithwaite, farmers, of Otapiri, appeared on charges of cruelty to animals in that horses owned Dy'them were. Insufficiently fed. Arnold wa3 also charged with cruelty to two dogs.
Counsel for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals eaid a. visit to Braithwaite's farm revealed that seven horses had met their deaths within a month, and evidence would be produced to show that their deaths were 'due to starvation.
; The magistrate convicted /both defendants and placed ; them on probation for 12 months. He described their mental as horrible and dreadful and <>tie of callous indifference to -animals.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 8
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