DOGS SHOT ON FARM

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 17

DOGS SHOT ON FARM

Court Allows Appeal

( N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 5. The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) today allowed an appeal by Maurice James Kilmlster. a farmer, against an award of £450 damages relating to two champion poodles he shot on his property. In the Magistrate’s Court. Dorothy Louise Tanner, spinster, of Karori, was awarded the damages, being the full value of the two dogs.

Mr W. L. Ellingham appeared for Kilmlster and Mr A M Sievwright for Tanner. His Honour said that in the Court below the defence i.ised was, among other things, the provisions of the Dog Registration Act of 1955. In the Supreme Court this had been a little more specific and section 15 of the act had been pleaded. That section had not been relied on in the Court below. “The case is entirely different from that put before the learned Magistrate, and I want to make it clear I am not dissenting from his finding on the question he had to decide,” his Honour said.

Virgil’* Preference.— The selective military service organisation sent Virgil J. Jones. jun„ a draft status questionnaire. Virgil said if given his preference, he would like to shoot tanks or be a fireman. Virgil is four. —Atlanta (Georgia), April 2.