CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
HORSE AND PIG SUFFER.
FARMER FINED £6. Cruelty to a horse and a pig led to the. appearance in the Police Court this morning of Donald Morrison, a fanner, of Kumeu. He was fined £6 and costs by Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M. Inspector Hollingsworth, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he and Constable Rushton visited Morrison's farm on August 11, following a complaint. An old horse, in poof condition, was seen in a one and a quarter acre paddock, in which there was very, little grass—not enough to feed the horse properly. They found a pig tethered by a back leg in a shed. The rope was stopping the animal's circulation and cutting into the leg. Defendant said that if the horse was put out in the other paddock it was too hard to catch. The pig had trampled on the kitchen garden, and that was why he had tethered it.
Mr. McKean: The less he has t« do with animals the better.
Morrison said the horse was 27 years old and had been "pensioned off."
Mr. McKean: A very poor pension — a pension which apparently consists of giving him nothing to eat. Morrison was fined £3 on each charge.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1933, Page 2
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