CATTLE STARVED
OWNER FINED. PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. Charged with having omitted to supply six dairy cattle with proper and sufficient food, Wilfred Thomas Christensen, a salesman, of Palmerston North, and formerly of Dannevirke, was fined £5 and costs in the Dannevirke Magistrate’s Court yesterday by Mr J. Miller, S.M. The case for the prosecution was that some months ago the defendant Avas the occupier of a small suburban area of five or six acres in Dannevirke, on which he kept a small number of stock. Previous to the dairy coavs concerned in the proseeuton being place on the section, 29 head of stock had eaten down the lank grass. When the dairy coavs Avere placed on the land the paddock was bare. The cows had been left there for a fortnight. It aa'HS alleged that one of the animals had practically died from starvation. Costs were fixed at £6/15/6.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 January 1932, Page 5
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