RAID ON ABATTOIRS
SEQUEL IN COURT BUTCHERS WARNED Press Association. BLENHEIM, Wednesday. As the outcome of an alleged raid on the killing room at the IBlenheim municipal abattoirs a charge of theft of sheep “runners’* was preferred against John Joseph O’Halloran in the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon before Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. The case really arose from a difference between the borough council and the butchers over the question of the ownership of “runners” taken from animals sent to the abattoirs by butchers to be kilted.
Mr. A. C. Nathan withdrew the information on the butchers giving an assurance that there would be no repetition of the offence and on defendant agreeing to pay the costs and to return the “runners.” The same course was adopted in regard to a charge of trespass preferred against Thomas Tracey, who was acting under butchers’ instructions in seizing the “runners.”
The magistrate warned the butchers that if there were any repetition of the offence he would have no hesitation in entering a. conviction for theft.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19271013.2.100
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 174, 13 October 1927, Page 11
Word Count
173RAID ON ABATTOIRS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 174, 13 October 1927, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in