FRANK ADMISSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 14

FRANK ADMISSION.

GRAZED HIS CATTLE. ON NEIGHBOUR’S PROPERTY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 19. A frank statement that lie got up at 3 o’clock every morning and took his cattle on to his neighbours’ property to graze till about 7 o’clock, was made by Archibald George Gledliill, owner of “Carnation Castle.” at Point Howard, in the Supreme Court to-day. This was GledhiH’s chief answer to charges that lie had ill-treated a Jersey bull, heifer and heifer calf by failing to supply them with sufficient food, and water; also that ho had omitted to supply them with proper and sufficient food and water. There were six charges. He was found not guilty of deliberate cruelty, hut guilty of failing to supply proper and sufficient food and water. “I can’t understand how yon were so foolish as to come to the Supreme Court when the case could have been heard much more rapidly and cheaply in tho Magistrate’s Court.” said_ Sir John Reed in fining Gledliill £5, together with £8 costs, in default two months’ hard labour.