HORSES FOUND DEAD
«, Poisoning Suspected Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, May IS. Two valuable draught horses belongisg to Neil Gunn and Sons, of Waitepeka, are believed to have been poisoned on Sunday night. The horses, along with others, had been fed with ciiaff that had been under lock and key since last season. This morning one. animal, tt bay gelding, was found dead near a heap of ehaff that had been spread last night, and the other, a marc, was lying dead at a spring about 200 yards away from (be heap of chaff. Zoth animals had been worked on Saturday, and on Sunday at 5 p.m., when the ehaff was spread, the animals appeared fo be all right. The Balclutlia police are investigating the matter, and flic contents of tlie stomachs and sample of tlie chaff are to be analysed.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 15
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140HORSES FOUND DEAD Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 15
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