FOWL FOR DINNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 3

FOWL FOR DINNER.

STUD ROOSTER TAKEN.

RELIEF WORKER CHARGED. SEQUEL IN POLICE COURT. A valuable stud rooster and a hen was on the menu of an Avondale relief worker yesterday. The relief worker figured on tho charge sheet in the Police Court this morning.

Ho was John Douglas Stark, aged 35, labourer, and he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a rooster valued at .€2 2/ and a hen worth 10/0, the property of George Mills.

Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan said the rooster and hen were stolen from complainant's poultry farm yesterday morning. A constable made inquiries after tho theft was reported, and on going to Stark's house he found the two f0w1.3 being cooked. The constable found the heads of the two birds.

Asked why he stole the birds, Stark told the magistrate that he was a married man with five children. "The wife and kiddies had nothing to eat, so I went across the road and took the two fowls," lie. added. "You took expensive ones," the magistrate told him.

Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan: Stark had three fowls of his own in his garden, if he wanted poultry. Mr. McKean: Why did you not take them instead of stealing someone else's. Stark?

Accused: The three fowls belong td the kiddies. They feed them every morning and I did not like killing them. They are like pets. "Is thifi rooster really valued at £2 2/?" asked Mr. MeKean. Mills, the complainant, came forward and said he onlv bought the rooster last week for £2 2/ from Mrs. Hellaby, who bred it. Tho rooster was a studbircl. Stark was remanded until Friday for sentence.