CRUELTY TO HORSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1906, Page 6

CRUELTY TO HORSES.

CONVICTIONS RECORDED. Cruelty to horses was the subject of several informations heard by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. l Mr. Burgess prosecuted on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr.. Wilford defended Three informations were preferred against Harold Burby in respect of three horses. Alfred Williams, Inspector for the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals, deposed that he saw one of the defendant's horses on 14th June, at> the foot of Constable-street. It was "a bag of bones," covered with sores, lame, and in a very poor condition. The defendant promised to stable it, but instead of doing that, turned it out without a covei on a vacant piece of ground. "A very sad condition," was the phrase used by the witness in describing a second horso in respect of which the defendant was .charged. It was. according to witness, weak and suffered from want of food and shelter. Witness obtained an order from tho defendant and' had-the animal shot. The third horse was also in a wretched condition. ~*The" defendant .had failed to provide it with sufficient food and shelter, and it was now in such a> wretched condition that v it also would have,to be shot. Harold Furby. the defendant in the cases, stated that until recently he was a dairyman. The first horse, he explained, sustained abrasions by bolting on one occasion from Newtown to Lambton-quay The second horse did not belong to him. He liad charge of it for a time, but re- i turned it a week before the information was laid. The horso mentioned in the third information cost him £3. He bought it on a Wednesday, and was summoned on the following Friday. It was suffering from worms, and that was why* it was in such poor condition. His Worship recorded convictions on each information, and said, *"I do not think be has too much funds, otherwise I would make an example of him." The fines and.costs totalled £7 3s. Wm. Henry Burnett, Berhampore, dairyman, was fined on one information 203 with £2 2s costs, in default seven days'- imprisonment, for having allowed a horse to be worked when it was unfit .'for work and on a second information of "a similar nature was ordered to pay 11s coats. The defendant ip this case pleaded' guilty. An information against Herbert John Barley charging him with having sanctioned a horse to be worked when it was unfit for work was dismissed. The defendant was represented by Mr. Wilford.