WANTON CRUELTY
ILL-TREATMENT OF A BULL DROVER SENT TO GAOL. (Per Press Association.—Oopyrignt.) ASHBURTON, Thursday. ■ ;A drover, Thomas Pcnnal, was sentenced in the Police Court today to fourteen days' . hard labour on a charge of cruelty to a bull by cutting its nostrils in order to remove a ring. The animal was at the time in a truck in the Ashburton railway yards.' Edgar Harvey Gibson, of Tinwald, was charged with Pcnnal, but the magistrate found that there was no, evidence that he had assisted Penual. Pcnnal said he did not think the bull was caused much suffering. Ho had often cut rings out before. Farmers were economising these days, and demanded the rings back when a bull was bought. There was a possibility that the rings would be worth 2/6 each, or less, after they were removed. ■ The Magistrate: I see. For such a small consideration you would inflict suffering on these animals. Can you not get the rings back after the animals are slaughtered? Accused; Since this action was taken we have made arrangements to that effect. The magistrate said he looked upon it as a shocking ease of wanton cruelty. Pennal was liable to six months’ imprisonment Counsol for Permal, said that accused had been working among stock all his life and had perhaps become hardened in his work with them. He had never previously been before the Court.
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1929, Page 10
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