CHILD BITTEN

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1934, Page 2

CHILD BITTEN

DANGEROUS DOG. ORDER FOR. DESTRUCTION. At the Whangarei Police Court yesterday, before Mr G. N. Morris, S.M., Emily Poole was charged with permitting an Alsatian dog, 1 known to be dangerous, to go at large without being muzzled, and also with being’ the owner of the dog when the animal attacked an unknown child on or about November 15, 1933, in Fourth Avenue.

■Senior-Sergeant Powell said that the dog was dangerous and a menace in the district. It had recently attacked a terrier and mauled it so that the-lat-ter had to he destroyed. In August last it had worried a Pekinese, which had died. Li November last a girl went, to tho back door to sell some tickets, and the dog bit. the child. “The dog is a menace, and I think it. should be destroyed,” said Mr Powell. S. Poole, husband of the defendant, said the dog could not be called savage. ■lt had never attacked anyone on the road, and the dogs that had been killed had been worried on the property. The child referred to had run away from the dog and the animal followed. It was a pedigree dog. The Magistrate convicted and ordered accused to pay costs on the charges, and made an. order that, the dog should bo destroyed^.