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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17631, 7 December 1922, Page 11

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gIDBITATSALEYABDS.

Ijjwtwent meted out to a Buljhthe injector for the S.P.O.A. i Aldington saleyards recently Ldtobj'Mrß.M. D. Morh»j«tod»y'9 meeting of the Committee of the Canterbury Stf. Association yesterday. said that there had bean aof {fteeji Store bullocks which, iWwi, had come from the to litals. They were all jam[bißuU pen; he did not know fciid-fieen in it all night. ExHrid that the; were in want of gfijllfl of the bullocks got down WW went to the refreshment pit gst a cdrwg'hnife, with the in, cutting the pthroat. Before he could do so fapector of the &P.O.A. came pd produced a nickle-plated gun, he triad tqßn, but which only he fired a ishot Em of the animal's ears, hut the and walked out of the ilp understood, that it died tmk afternoon. He thought fifj|mspector' attempted to kill wfjiight to finish the job. He m%\ the Association send a Footing against the manner ■rat- animal had been dealt lllMlanjwcondea. suggested that it Bm to write also to the seopflew&» Company on the .\£ mm (Mr It. B. Alexander) Pfig an extraordinary thing |Srt place, and it had been pjjMj SSveral people.' That ftj'tepejaally an inspector of !&jfe*j|f>qW be allowed to do rather ridicuaagieed to. ille, Inspector for the .GjL, made the followo a reporter last night: ty at Ad<?ington stock ber 20th last, I noticbollocks in store pen h»' I found lying » r , pen, and being \the othei- cattle.' I iw'ot Major Stafford,, ierinaxy-Surgeon, td the istle, "and he informed ill appeared distressed, wyed out and watered, and the one that was raid he destroyed. I

spoke to Mr Macdonald, head of the stock department, Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association, and he (Mr Macdonald), with one of hia stockmen, came along to the pen and removed the cattle to water, and instructed, hia stockman to destroy the beast, which was lying down in the pen, and unable to regain its feet. The stockman went away and returned with & large knife. Ho asked me if I would stun the beast behind the ear with my firearm first, as it was impossible to do it from the front part of the head, the beast having its head poked in under the public platform. I fired a shot at the beast, and the bullet being a small lead one, had no affect, only j breaking the skin. The beast immediately jumped to its feet, and appeared to come too again. It was driven away into the yard with its mates, and after taking a drink of water from thetrough it walked about with the other cattle. I'again spoke to Major Staf- ] ford, V.S., and he was of the opinion that the shot did not hurt the.animal; but, apart from that, he thought that it was suffering internally. I immedi- | ately arranged to have the animal trucked to the Sockbuxn Abattoir, but it died that evening before being trucked, and was removed to the byproducts, and..-. from equiries there the I next day, I was informed that in j probability the cause of death was inflammation 'of the bowels, no doubts from the manner in which the cattle are hoisted aboard the boat at the Chatham Islands. For that .purpose two stout ropes with two iron spreaders were used. One of the officers of the steamer Kamo informed me so. The beast was one of a line of cattle which arrived, in Port Lyttelton by the Kamo from Chatham Islands on November 26th last. I would suggest that the Saleyards Co. should provide .the caretakerAwith a shot-gun for the purpose of immediately destroying injured animals.