CRUELTY TO SHEEP.
KEPT IN STARVED STATE.
FARMER FINED THREE POUNDS,
[FROM OUR OWN, correspondent.]
HAMILTON, Wednesday,
A Rotokauri farmer, John Wilcock, was prosecuted in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day for cruelly ill-treating a mob of sheep. He pleaded not guilty. Constable Aplin said defendant kept a mob of 90 ewes and lambs in a paddock of from 15 to 20 acres for two months. There was no feed in tho paddock. When interviewed, defendant said he had starved the sheep in order to compel them' to eat off the blackberries in the paddock. A Government stock: inspector, C. E McPhee, gave corroborative evidence and said tho ewes were in a deplorably emaciated condition. Ho had never seen sheep so badly treated in his 25 years' experience as an inspector. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said it was clear that dafendant'had tried to clear his land by starving his sheep. The animals had been caused unnecessary pain and suffering and had been cruelly ill-treated. Defendant was fined £3.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 14
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