ALLOWED SHEEP TO SUFFER
OWNER FINED £7/10/(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 11. Charged with omitting to kill a sheep that was helpless and suffering, Robert Craig Henderson, a railway employee, of New Plymouth, was fined £7 10s by Mr A. W. Yortt. S.M., in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court today. Henderson pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant A. G. Quin said that Henderson had 27 acres of land under his control. On May 26, an S.P.C.A. i inspector went 'to the property, where the defendant had 12 sheep. One was . in such a bad state that the inspector secured an authority from a Justice of the Peace to destroy it. The sheep , had obviously been in such a state for ; some by the time the inspeci tor came to execute the authority, the , sheen was dead. The defendant hac . previously been told by neighbour: ; about the sheep, but had said he hac no time to attend to them.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27992, 12 June 1956, Page 11
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