STARVED ANIMALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 13

STARVED ANIMALS.

A DROVER PROSECUTED. FINE OF £lO IMPOSED. A fine was imposed by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., on George Thompson, drover, who was charged in the Police Court yester : day with failing to supply proper food to animals. lie pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given that a man and a woman had visited Thompson's property at. Arthur Street, Ellerslie, and liad noted tho condition of seven dogs and two horses. Five of the dogs were tied up and were said to have been so starved that they could hardly move. A dead calf had been thrown to the dogs, and had been eaten voraciously. The two horses had been tethered on rocky ground where there was no grass. An inspector of tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, J. ,T. Hollingworth, said tho dogs and the horses were in poor condition. He did not doubt that they had been starved. Thompson said he was absent from the property at intervals, and he arranged with a boy to supply the animals with food. Cross-examined by Mr. Hollingworth, Thompson admitted that he had been convicted and fined in August, 1930, for cruelty to animals. Since, then he had been careful about attending animals. A fine of £lo* in default imprisonment for a month, was imposed by the magistrate. "J shall allow you until Saturday morning to find the money,'*■ Mr. Ilujit remarked. "Otherwise, you will have to servo a month. If you do that, the food you receive will bo a good deal better than that you have given your animals."