LICE ON SHEEP.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 6

LICE ON SHEEP.

i'AILUIiE TO DIP,

.WARNING TO STOCK DEALERS,

, ax the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr. Wyvera Wilson, S.M., John ■Phillips was pro3ecutod at the iwatigatiou at the local Departmental inspector with, exposing 500 lice-ia-iected lamba.foi* sale at tbo VVaneanui iiaat yards. Tiie defendant said be got the lambs from a Avell-iknown iarnier at "Wan^aejiu who assurea aim he did not have a louay sheep on the place. Hia Worship aaid the assurance ot somebody else was not sufficient. The defendant probably thought he could hold, the sheep for a ie// days and. fe'Qt rid of them without dipping. ; A fine oi £3 aud 1/- cosU was impoaea. John Butcher was similarly ohargea. Me said he had bought the 'ukeey at Feiidiug, und understood (.hoy had bsea cUppaa, His Worship said the onus was on the owner to see that aheep wert dipped, and they were responsible ix ihay took another maa's word for it. The defendant wanted to know what the inspectors at the other yfcrds were doing-, and a smile v/eni round &a he added that the local inspector did not misa anything. A3 aoma o£ the aheeii in defend«nt*a lot had been dipped, defendant KOt o£ with, a line ol fA and rij-