SHEEP WORRYING
FARMER LOSES 150 IN A YEAR. (Per Press Association Copyright.) WELLINGTON, June 21. A Hiitt Valley sheep fanner, Walter Kilniister, who was the informant in a .sheep-worrying case in the Lower Flutt Magistrate’s Court to-day, said that during the last year he had had about 150 • -sheep killed by dogs. Charges of being the owner of an Alsatian dog which was dangerous and not kept under proper control were preferred against W. Stanley Brice and Patrick Brice. Kilniister did not say that the defendant)? dog was responsible for all the sheep, observed his counsel, but he was apprehensive of the future if tho dog ;wa,i not destroyed. . A ite-G bearing the evidence, Mr J. •S. Barton, S.M., said it was proved that. IhpfdojT had worried sheep. He. was loath to order the destruction of the dog, and in view of the evidence he thought that it would he reasonable if he. .allowed the animal to be kept, but under proper control.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1933, Page 6
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