Farmery Beware.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 91, 21 March 1885, Page 2

Farmery Beware.

pPatea Mail] . ••.-■••. Judgment m a case which at first sight/appeals- ope of . peculiar hardship, hafe jjjst'been-passed in- Wcourtlnot fair' from here, and shews how necessary it is to obey.therequirenienfa^ofiihelaw. ;A , farmer lately bought fear rams at Messrs: Nolan, Tonks, and Co,'s sale, and ap--ptieddkr and obtained a cj.ean; certificate. . for thVsame. The purch'aser,iHyin^ in^ the Manawatu district, telegraphed to this 1 , Sheep Inspects* of his district that he' was bringing the rams dowrirand took I tfrenvnexi} morning. Tfhe^a,w, however^ requiries seven c(ays' notice of intention • to bring sheep (though m, possession of a ciefe,h''^erCifibat'e) frbm'an iyfected dis- ' fected • district into- a 1 ' clean ione, to jbe given to the Inspectorbf the/difitricbinto whiph- it isiintendjed to 't^kel ,the; sheep. The; purchaser, m, [question^ thought | a telegram jand^plean. ceri^icate ought [to be sufficient, or was possibly unawq.rei of the stringent nature of the law; and, [as before stated, took his. sheep down with "him. He has sincV interviewed the magistrate on the subject at the request > of/ the district laspeptor, at^d« as a result; is a sadder 'if adviser man, as the lesson, . him is that ... any. . person' disregarding the law on this' subjec^ is , required 'i<i pa|y 'to' Tier ' Majesty's ' representatives as a sort- of : earnest 'that he won't do it again. Those four> iaans have-proved, rather B*p§nsjye animels,', and we should recommend any fijtbre . purchaser- intending to , take into another district to give, the neoeßsary notice before doing so, as' there isno option m the matter. A person convict? Ed of'the offettee "shall pay 1 a fine! 'of Such is the law. . v . i . . ;