CATTLE NOT BURIED.
AND COW CRUELLY TREATED. MAORI FINED AT PUKEKOHE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Thursday. In the Pukekohe Court, before Messrs. S. P. Day and D. McCrcady Armstrong, J.P.'s, a Maori, Tautara Weke, was charged with allowing four dead cows and two dead calves to remain uuburied on land adjacent to a public place for about one month prior to September 11. Defendant Was further charged with ill-treating a cow by leaving it helpless on the side of the Tuakau-Tc Kohanga Road from August 27 to August 30 and then dragging it a distance of 100 yards along the road and 40 yards across a paddock by means of a chain attached to the hind legs. Defendant, who was represented by Mr. M. R. Grierson, pleaded not guilty.
On the first charge defendant was convicted and fined £2, with costs 10/; on the second he was fined £3, with costs 13/. He was allowed three months in which to pay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 229, 27 September 1935, Page 15
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