INSUFFICIENT FOOD FOR SHEEP
Man Fined £7 and Costs By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, August 3. Stated by the prosecution to have left 80 sheep in a paddock so bare of pasture that 20 of them died of starvation, James Kitchen appeared before Mr. H. AV. Bundle, S.M., in the Pair merston Magistrate’s Court to-day charged with failing to supply them with proper and sufficient food. it was stated by an inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that on July 22 last the sheep -were in a paddock belonging to the borough of Palmerston. On going through them lie had counted 60 live animals and 20 dead ones. There was no feed of any description in the paddock and no attempt ■whatever had been made to provide any. The living sheep were in very poor condition and several were staggering about through weakness. The cause of death of the 20 sheep was undoubtedly starvation. The magistrate convicted and fined Kitchen £7 with costs.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 10
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