PONIES WANDERING ON ROAD; OWNER FINED
“This question of wandering stock is a nuisance and a danger to motorcyclists and other road users; people who own horses should keep them in paddocks,” commented Mr S. S. Preston, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, yesterday, when imposing a tine of £5, costs 225. on George Philip Wright, charged with failing to prevent two horses from wandering in Grey Street. Inspector J. H. Minnell prosecuted for the Wanganui City Council and defendant pleaded gyilty through his counsel, Mr J. S. Rumbold. Eric Maxwell Hardy, ranger for the Wanganui City Council, said that at 7.30 a.m. on September 11 he found two ponies wandering in Grey Street and returned them to the owner. In reply to the magistrate, witness said that these ponies spent a lot ot time on the road. Inspector Minnell: You have had them in the pound before? Witness: Yes. Mr Rumbold submilted that defendant lived in Godwin Crescent. At the back of his home was a field belonging to the Convent. He had permission to graze the ponies there. When the ponies got out, however. dofendan; found that a gat n in a distant part of the paddock hart been removed. The gate had since been replaced
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 October 1950, Page 8
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