Magistrate’s Court Fined £5 For Leaving Dead Sheep On Farm

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29742, 8 February 1962, Page 9

Magistrate’s Court Fined £5 For Leaving Dead Sheep On Farm

On a Charge of disposing of raw offal on September 25 on Cashmere Hills so as to enable dogs to have access to it, Edward Francis Barren, a farmer, was convicted and fined £5 by Mr N. M. Izard, SM, i o the Magistrate’s Cc * trt F«terday He pleaded not guilty to the charge brought by the hydatids control officer.

. McCreanor, a nya alias control officer, said he found 14 dead sheep with!n 3 of a mile of each other on Barner’s farm near Dyers Pass road. He said the carcases were about 100 yards above the Takahe and on property adjoining a residential area. McCreanor said the offence occurred at lambing time and that the dead ewes had not been attended to at all. “Dogs easily have got to them, he said.

“Some of the carcases had been there for about two weeks. I approached Barner about them and he said he had not been round the sheen for three weeks. He said that if he had to employ someone to go round the sheep be would have to give up farming,” McCreanor said. Daniel Barrer, a part-time worker on his father’s farm, said he could find only two dead sheep on the property and they had been there only about 40 hours. He said the other objects were only patches of plucked wool and sheep skins. In evidence. Edward Francis Barrer said that during the lambing season he had been on the property and among the sheen every day H* ran about 350 ewes on the 176-acre farm, and there were only two carcases on the property when McCreanor inspected it.

The Magistrate said he was satisfied the offence had been proved but that the circumstances were not quite as bad as had been made out. SHORT-WEIGHT BREAD Stacey and Hawker. Ltd. (Mr R. E. Wylie), was fined

£5 on each of five charges of having short-weight bread between October 26 and November 3. A plea of guilty was entered. Mr Wylde said die offences were unintentional and that there were as many loaves over-weight as under-weight. As a result of the offences the company was sending a representative to Australia to obtain an improvement in the dough-dividing plant. ASSAULTED WIFE “You will have to realise you can’t go round assaulting your wife—it’s not in the contract," the Magistrate told Richard Noel Milford, aged 62, when he pleaded guilty to assaulting Ruby Ethel May Milford on January 31. Milford was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three months if called upon. UNREGISTERED DOGS On charges brought by the Paparua County Council of having unregistered dogs offenders were dealt with as follows: N T. Blackmore, £3; T. J Coleman, £2; Peter Graham Cunningham, £1; Arthur' Thomas Meikle, £2; J. McGregor, £2. TAX OFFENCES Riccarton Provisions, Ltd., was convicted and fined £5 on each of six charges of misapplying P.A.Y.E deductions between May, 1960, and April, 1961. Mr R. J. de Goldi entered a plea of guilty for the company. FOUND DRUNK On a charge of being found drunk in Cathedral square on February 6, having been previously convicted of drunkenness within the last six months, Thomas William Tymons was convicted and fined £2. He pleaded guilty to the charge. DUMPED RUBBISH On a charge brought by the Halswell County Council of dumping rubbish at Halswell about November. N. R Savage pleaded guilty and was fined £3. (Before Messrs N. J. G. Speary and H. A. Harrow, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Charged with attempting an unnatural act on a seven-year-old boy on January 20, a man, whose name was suppressed, was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Christchurch. The man pleaded guilty to the charge and was represented by Mr D. J. Hill.