THE LOT OF THE COACH HORSE.
CHARGES OP SHOCKING CRLWW Inspector Seed, at the meeting of tho Wellington Committee. for tlsc Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday, fcpor.ted that i.ho horses ussi in » c.oacli running between Shannon and Foxton w.er.o. not in -ri. fit condition to. bo used'. Tt was one of tho won/? cases lie had known. 3n one instance cno of tho horses had been shot, but .before that it was-in siieh; & condition that it qottld hardly Walls from tho coach to tho stables. Tiio horses used in tho 'coach ltq.d frightful shoulders, and. it was a wonder people would riac behind them. Tho Inspcctkvr recommended that a prosecution should follow. Ho said ho was in a difficult position >with tl.io country constables, for if they performed their dirties cruelty would soon stop. In oio present ease tho owner of tho coach was tho driver. As tho caso was in tho Painicrsto.il North district, it was decided t<|- communicato with the Palmerson North Socicty to givo them the option to prosccuto.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 8
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173THE LOT OF THE COACH HORSE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 8
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