CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
A HEAVY FINE,
BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"
ASHBURTON, Nov. 30. At the Magistrate's Court, James Bell (owner) Daniel Bell and James Mattey (employees) were charged with having ill-treated four horses, by working them while they had sore shoulders. James Bell pleaded not guilty and the other two pleaded guilty. After hearing the evidence Magistrate Day said that he was satisfied that Bell knew the condition of the horses, and he inflicted a line of £10 and costs. The other men were, he took it, working to some extent under oompxilsion, but they were liable, and were fined £1 in each case.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5
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104CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5
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