SHEEP STEALING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 8

SHEEP STEALING

FARMERS' UNION CONCERN

Concern was expressed toy a number of r speakers'at the meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New. Zealand. Farmers' Union yesterday afternoon about the prevalence ,of sheep stealing in New Zealand.- A remit was adopted from Hawke's Bay asking the executive to take active steps to eliminate sheep stealing.

Afea means of making it1 easier tc detect thefts, one member suggested that sellers of sheep should be requir ed to give a description of earmarks in writing at the time the sheep changec hands, and that drovers of sheei on the roads should be provided witl a waybill giving the number of shpep where they >are bound and where thej are from, and also a description o: the earmarks. . He said that consider able cleverness was shown by sheei stealers and that they worked hard "If they were to turn their energies t< something else they would make i fortune. ■ Mr. W. Mulholland said he though the giving of waybills was a good sug • gestion, but that th^e other suggestioi was . impracticable. In the case o [some farmers, the earmarks were jus about as numerous as the sheep the; had. . The president (Mr. W. j. Poison M.P.) said that the trouble was tha Magistrates and Judges understooi nothing about the difficulties tb farmers were up against in the mattei The penalties inflicted very often wer utterly inadequate. Mr. W. J. A. McGregor said h thought some method of patrol migh be helpful. There was no doubt tha there was a fair amount of shee; stealing going on.1 SAFELY EQUIPPED. They were packing for their holida trip and space was precious. Jack: That case looks like a chen ist's shop. Do we need all thos bottles? Jim: Well, we must have the oil fo sunburn, the iodine for bumps an bruises, the citronella for bites, an the Baxter's Lung Preserver for cold ■and chills. > By no means least important is tha handy bottle of "Baxter's." Thre sizes, Is Cd, 2s 6d, and 4s 6d anywheri —Advt.