NOT PROPERLY FED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1934, Page 11

NOT PROPERLY FED

CARE OF A HORSE

MAN FfNED £10

Pleading guilty to a charge of omitting to supply a horse with, proper and sufficient food, Anthony Yianakis, a restaurant keeper, was .fined £10 by Mr. B. Page,. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. .

A similar charge against Hyman Hunt, a farm hand employed by Yianakia, was withdrawn^ . ~ .

■ Senor-Sergeant Dempsey said that the defendant ..leased a pig farm at Newlands, and on. August 25 a constable, on being called to the farm, found a horse lying in. a very weak condition on a track leading to the piggery. The horse was still harnessed to. a sledge that was. used'to cany food to the pigs..' Hunt, who was ia charge of tlie horse, said that about 9 o'clock that "morning the/ horse fell down at a slippery corner and was unablo :to rise* ..Hunt, said he. knew that the horse had been more or,less starved, and that his employer ; had promised to supply him with food' for i the horse. The only food he'was able to give the horse were some cabbage leaves that were lised for pig food. The Senior-Sergeant said there was no doubt that the horse was a fair age. In a, statement the defendant said^ that he had-.had the horse for abont fifteen months and it had gradually got into low condition. There was not much feed for it on the farm. He intended getting food for it, but the matter haa slipped Ms memory. He had also left instructions that the horse was not to be worked until it had recovered. If ho had known that the animal was in such a poor condition ho would not have allowed Hunt to work it.