HORSE ILL-TREATED
CHINESE FINED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. “I have no doubt in my mind I should enter a conviction in this case,” said Mr. T. •B. McNeil, R.M., at the Magistrate’s Court today, after hearing evidence in a case in which Wall [Ting was charged with cruelly ill-treating a horse by permitting it to be worked while in an unfit condition. Inspector Henry said he saw defendant’s horse pulling a cart-load of vegetables in Bex street, -Miramar. The horse was very lame in the near foreleg, and there was no shoe on the foot. The heel of the foot was badly cracked, and tin* frog was showing signs of thrush, and smelt very bad. 'Phis evidence was corroborated by a witness who was with Inspector Henry at the •time.
For the defendant, the defence was a general denial that the condition of the horse was as alleged by witnesses for the society. Defendant,was fined £5 and ordered to pay costs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 7
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