POLICE AND PRESENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18481, 8 September 1925, Page 7

POLICE AND PRESENTS.

AN OBJECTION

(FBESS ASSOCIATION TMJSGBAK.)

DUNEDIN, September;' 7.

Prior to the business of tho City Licensing Committee this morning, the chairman, Mr J. R. , .Bartholomew, S.M., read the following < ■ resolution passed by the committee, with >the in-' timation that it be forwarded-to. the Minister of Justice:—"That the committee respectfully draws • the attention of tho Minister to the' tion made to Mrs Mathieson, wife of-Senior-Sergeant Mathieson, on' ; his departure from: Dunedin, as reported in the Press. There was a strong representation of the liquor trade at", the' above presentation, which forces the committee to view the matter with the gravest alarm. The committee is also informed that a similar presentation has been made to members of the police force on other occasions, and in view of the fact that the proper administration of the licensing laws is in the hands of police officers, the' committee respectfully requests action to be taken to prevent effectually any recurrence of such presentation." CRUELTY CASES. e SUFFERING HORSES. (PBJESS ASSOCIATION TKLEOBAII.) HAMILTON, September 7. A farm manager named Gardmer was fined 50s and costs in the Magistrate's Court for cruelty to animals; The evidence showed that defendant entrained 11 horses in one truck at a station on the Hotorua line, for transport to Raetihi. When the horses reached Fran'kton one was dead, and two others down, with the remainder standing on them. When the animals attempted to get up 4hey fell back No Food. (PBBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, September 7. Hira Paenga, the manager of a Maori estate, who had left 25 native horses for weeks in a paddock, with insufficient food and water, several dying from starvation, was fined the maximum penalty of £2O, at the Police Court to-day.