CRUELTY TO HORSES.
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'1.: " (by* TEIi^fIIIArH—TOESS ASSOMATIOS.) I - - Hew Plymouth, February 19. • lOn. Saturday.' riighfclsomcono who had see# . crufelty inflicted "on a"; team .of. horses being .'driven between' hero and Olcato gavo informa-i itibrt"' to the polinoi" .On' MondayiConstableS' for tho wagon ;t<imirig-.inM' tovvn.i' When:'they saw. it jthey; 'ordered':tho;drivor to stop, aud -tho police examined t-lic•'fiv<i -horscs■■ Thero .was. only ono : souiid- 'horsoi in .the team, and four ofthe* ; poor- brutos';wcto' lv, uiifit to bo' usod. •. 'Their' shoulders' .were; unsightly with';criiol, • protruding; sores.' : Tho collars '-and' sonio. isackingiwere hesiucared' with blood and' sick-'. Ming •'mutton: '-Tho'-- polico • arrested the 'driver;. Staiiley'-Wooldridge, of Okato; and had 'tho-horses'plaeed in stftbles ' '(|: | Yoßtehlay, i AVooldridge was brought be.idre.tho Court;; iiiid was charge<l with cruelly'.' , illrtreating tho- four.-horsey-liy 'driving them l whilst thov woro sulfering i'rom soro shoulders -- ■ The .accused pleaded guilty/'; Tho i; Court l examined,tho horses, ami His worship;"\li H S 1 itp.horbert, declared the case to' |"bo.'one' of .'tho.iWoi-it :ho;hkl 'known. Son- | tenciv was ilel'orrod, the acciiscd -being , ro-: lyrianded to ; appear, on February 24V It ,was ,ordered- that. tlio horses should lie turnetl '".'out..-in. a .paddock aiid not used iuitil 'the* .word.well.-'r Hid'juwrisKl was allowed out (i icustodv.voni hie wh''neQimisaaoo''of:£2o.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 9
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201CRUELTY TO HORSES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 9
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