COCK-FIGHTING
AN AUCKLAND ALLEGATION. ('Per Press Association — Copyright.) AUCKLAND, July 25. A case of unusual interest will be heard at l the next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Pukekohe when 13 men., including several who belong to Auckland, will be charged with cruelty to animals. i J'Yesterday police from Pukekohe •while visiting Bombay and Ramarama observed a number of men in a paddock. It .is alleged that their investigations showed that cock-fighting was in progress. About 20 Game cocks in boxes are stated to have been near the ring, while one bird which had just finished a fight was dead. The police, it is understood, commandeered the fighting ring, and the dead bird, together with the tethers and steel spikes which are said to have been used on the birds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1932, Page 2
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