CALLOUS TREATMENT.
SHEPHERD AND HIS DOGS. EXEMPLARY FINE IMPOSED. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH. June 29. A collie and her five little pups, nine days old, shivered, squeaked, and barked under the remains of an old -water cart in a City Council section in St. David street on one of the many stormy nights of last week. There were pools of water under the old cart which served as dog kennnel. The collie and her pups remained there till 2 o’clock in the morning, when the occupier of a neighbouring house rose from his bed and took the animals to better shelter. These circumstances were related in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Laurence George Fraser, a shepherd, was charged with cruelty. “ I can _ hardly trust myself to say what I think of a man who would treat his dog as you have treated these,” said the magistrate (Mr C. R. Orr Walker), “ The most effective way I can say it is to line you £7 10s and costs.” I
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 6
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