SHOOTING MAORI HORSES.
A SETTLER FINED
A SERIOUS NUISANCE.
The disabilities under which new settlers have to work in respect to stray stock were made plain at the Magistrate's Court yesterday when a settler named William Finlay, for whom Mr Sharpies appeared, was charged with shooting a Maori horse thereby causing wilful injury to the horse. The facts as disclosed were to the effect that defendant had a Crown section between Oparure and Waltomo. Defendant haa a considercbie quantity of young grass snd ha v;aj unable to fence in consequence of the road not yet. having been put through and a track wai in use running through the section. Mobs of hors-s were turned out in the neighbourhood and it was practically imp :ssi'jle !o keep thera away. Defendant almiited having been out with a gun as.cl firing U among tha horses in order to frighten them away. His Worship said h 3 had a great deal of sympathy with defendant. At tha same time the Legislature regarded the matter a3 a serious offence. A fine of £5 and coata was inflicted.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 730, 16 December 1914, Page 5
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182SHOOTING MAORI HORSES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 730, 16 December 1914, Page 5
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