BRAZEN CRUELTY
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF CALVES
LORRY DRUVER FIN&D
A lorry driver, Wi Hiko, was fined' £5 and costs 10s in the Whakatane Court last Tuesday deliberate cruelty in overloading bobby calves on August 24. last. Crammed into his truck on this occasion were no less-than 96 young calves several of whom had been crushed to death and smothered when \ the accused was accosted at Tanejatua. Wm. Hume, representing Thos Borthwick and Sons and a member of the Bobby Calf Pool siaid that his organisation were endeavouring to suppress such cruelty. He said that when he had! accosted the accused several were dead and had been so - for some time. The lorry normally should have had no more than 70, and the overloading was a genuine act of cruelty.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 5
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129BRAZEN CRUELTY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 5
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