CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
FIRM AND DROVER FINED.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, August 20. Pleading guilty to charges of cruelty to animals, W. and R. Fletcher, Limited, were fined £lO on one charge, and were ordered to pay costs on the other, and Kenneth Mackenzie Stevens, drover, was ordered to pay costs £l/4/- on one charge, and £l/1/- solicitor’s fee on the other, in the Police Court. Prosecuting for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mr Aekins said that Stevens left Morrinsville in May, with 480 head of cattle and three calves, and brought them to Westfield, being 21 days on the road. Thirty-eight lame cows were taken out at Tuakau, 21 at Rangiriri, and nine at Ohinewai. Hay and water, and larger-sized paddocks, should have been arranged beforehand. x
After hearing the evidence, the S.M. said that the company must have known the cattle would be more or less starved, through no grazing being arranged.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 9
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