Claim of £500 FOR LOSS OF SHEEP
WORRYING BY TWO DOGS ALLEGED (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, February 17 The hearing of a claim for £5OO for damage by dogs to a flock of sheep was begun in the Magistrate’s Court Greymouth before Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M., today. The plaintiff is Albert Neil McVicar, of Ikamatua, a sawmiller (Mr W. D. Taylor), who leases a farm property in the vicinity of the Clarke river, and the defendant Allan Cust (Mr C. R. McGinley), a mine worker, of Runanga. When the Court rose at 9.30 p.m. tonight the hearing of the plaintiff’s case was concluded. The Court will resume tomorrow afternoon. In his statement of claim the plaintiff says that he saw two dogs, the property of the defendant, among the plaintiff’s sheep worrying and biting them. A total of 138 sheep—99 ewes *n lamb and two rams—had been seriously injured, destroyed or lost through worrying by the dogs, the plaintiff claims. The value of the sheep is claimed at £585 and £B5 had been abandoned to bring the case within the jurisdiction of the Court.
A sum of £270 was paid into Court by the defendant in satisfaction of the claim.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27586, 17 February 1955, Page 14
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