CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10521, 6 December 1912, Page 6

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Per Press Association,

Timaru, December 5.

At the Magistrate’s Court, a drover of Gore, Geo Russell, was charged with cruelty to animals by railing from j Southland to Ashburton ewes on the point of lambing. Some lambs were born in the trucks, and several ewes and lambs arrived dead. Others were in a bad condition.

Sub-Inspector Oruickshank, in prosecuting, regretted that those really responsible could not be brought before the Court, as defendant was only engaged to look after the sheep on the journey. He, however, had not done ail he might have done on the journey. Defendant pleaded that there were no facilities, and he had done what he could till the train divided at Balclutha. The Bench regretted that the other parties were not chargeable, and fined defendant £1 and costs. The evidence indicated that the ewes were supposed to lamb in October, and the journey was early in September.