HORSE ILL-TREATED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 12

HORSE ILL-TREATED

ANIMAL WORKED WHEN SORE BAKER FINED THREE POUNDS [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Wednesday A baker, William Cargill, of Matangi, pleaded not guilty in the Hamilton Police Court to-day to a charge of illtreating a horse. Oswald Whittaker, inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, gave evidence that he found the horse suffering from wounds and in a very bad condition. It was not in a fit state to be worked, but it had every appearance of having just been worked. Constable Aplin said the horse had open wounds on its shoulders. It was in a poor condition. Defendant said that soon after he purchased the horse in January he found that its shoulders became sore very easily. He treated the animal and rested it for six weeks. The horse was used on a bread round. After a few days' work in February the horse again became soreshouldered and the wounds would not respond to treatment. The magistrate, Mr. F. 11. Levien, said defendant had been reasonably candid. lie and his father had been solicitous regarding the horse's wounds, but the animal nught not to have been worked on the last occasion. Defendant was fined £3 and costs.