Caused Cow Unnecessary Suffering
Charged under the Cruelty to Animals Act, George Nepia, aged 43, farmer, Rangitukia, was fined L 3, with 15s costs, when he was prosecuted in the Ruatoria Police Court before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., with unreasonably omitting to recover a hay fork thrown at a cow, thereby causing the animal unnecessary suffering. It was stated in evidence that the accused had chased a cow from his garden early one morning and as >t bounded over the garden boundary threw a hay fork at it. Two hours later the cow had been seen with the fork sticking in its side and when it was extracted it had three bad wounds, one being very deep. The accused said that lie did not know the fork had hit the cow, but thought it fell short The cow had been a constant source of annoyance in his garden.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 4
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