DAMAGE TO FAT CATTLE
CAR CHARGES THROUGH ' MOB ON HUTT ROAD
Br Telegraph—Press AssociationMasterton, January 13. The depredations of a speeding motorist who found himself charging through a mob of cattle are likely to prove expensive. The incident occurred on the Hutt Road, between Petpue and Lower Hutt, at 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Two Featherston drovers were taking a mob of prime fat cattle from a well known South Wairarapa station to the Ngabauranga freezing works, when the car, without warning, charged up behind them. Without slackening its speed, it is alleged, the car threaded its way through the stock, . but not before one beast bad both hind legs broken and several others had been bruised and injured. The drover who was leading the Stock set off in chase of the car, which ran on for half a mile, and then stopped. The number of the car was taken, and it Isunderstood that an information has been laid against the driver. The drovers estimate that the damage inflicted on the stock amounts to about £lOO, due to bruising and injuries depredating the quality of beef from first to second grade.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 93, 14 January 1926, Page 8
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