TWO DOGS WITH BUT A SINGLE COLLAR
One Died, and Label Was Used for Other 'NOT A CASE OF EVASION' Charged witli using for a dog the collar label belonging to another dog, lirnest Arthur Ooe, oi Napier, insurance manager, was fined lil 10/-, .with costs amcunting to £1 11/-, hy Mr Miller, S.M., in'the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning. Appearing for the Napier Borough Council, Mr H. B. Lusk explained that ■L'oe was the owner of a pointer and had formerly owned a Labrador, which had been kiUed after being registered for th© current year. The pointer had been registered at Hastings as a rabbit dog at a low fee, and defendant put the collar of the Labrador on to the pointer. The Bench : Do you think it was done with the iniention of evading the licence ? Mr Lusk : 1 don't think so. "The borough considers that the case is a bad one," he icontinued, "not so much on this account, but because of certain events which happened after." Mr A. L. Martin (for defendant): They may be the subject of othei proceeding, and are lrrelevant. Mr Martin added that the fee had been paid in Hastings but that the collar had been mislaid. Mr Coe's other dog had been kiUed about three weeks previously, and he used for the pointer the collar of the other dog.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 161, 26 July 1937, Page 8
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