BULLOCK HEAD EXHIBIT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 8

BULLOCK HEAD EXHIBIT.

Produced in Court During Cruelty Case.

Many queer exhibits are produced in the Magistrate’s Court, and this morning the list was added to when a sack containing a bullock’s head was brought forward to support an information laid by the Inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Colin Lawrence Austin was charged that on April 3, at Sheffield, he caused unnecessary suffering to a bullock by omitting to remove a horn growing into its right eye. The defendant pleaded guilty and was fined £2 and costs. Inspector D. J. White, of the S.P.C.A., said that on the day in question thirty-two cattle were trucked to Addington, and one of them had a horn growing into its right eye. The defendant admitted that he knew the horn was like that. The inspector then produced a photograph of the bullock and told the Magistrate that he had the animal’s head in court. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., thereupon went to a corner of the court, where, to the accompaniment of heavy thumps, the head was taken from a sack for his inspection. Continuing, Inspector White said that the suffering to the animal would occur from the bumping of the truck. It was seven years since they had had a similar' case. A few animals in a similar condition came into the yards, but they were taken away and dehorned before he could examine them. The defendant said that at the time of trucking the animals he had not had an opportunity to dehorn the beast concerned.