A BAD SHOT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 152, 19 February 1932, Page 4

A BAD SHOT

(From Our Own CorrespondeajH

■P FARMER FIRED ON GROUN®oi AND HIT TWO Ha COWS Hiei , „®st BROUGHT BEFORE COIPH

^ WHAKATANE, Wedne* In the Whakatane MagistfijHr Court to-day before Mr. S. L- PfH\V erson, S.M.r Malcolm Blach, °^H Teko, farmer, pleaded guilty ^H charge of ill-treating two covfSBEL the 23rd January last. CondH Cummings prosecuting stated >H defendant fired at two eows £ ing to a neighbour which ^ereHt]{l the road outside his property ,a»oi a result damage was done to ■Lg same. .Ko j Mr. L. Buddle for the defe*ej stated that Black had had conti|H,Us trouble with two cows belongwHe, neighbour R. G. M. Park. i were continually mixing with his'H^ and he had attempted on several jB. a es to drive them off his ^pr°fH g; In the end, defendant was inWK^ and picking up an old gun whic«Hess in the cow shed he fired tW0^Hgv one in the air, and another ^ H. a thought on the ground. Honc Defendant was either a H0rt or the shock of the first shothJH^| the barrel must have raised t/Hi'gj rel and the second shot inadve^Hecj hit the cows. Black had ho^H^u made complete compensation H, g owher of the cows. _ ,Hwa His Worship, in giving his de^Hj^ stated that he considered the e'®5 of ill-treating animals was 110 H oi correct charge as no evidenc® He^ cruelty had been produced. H^ g thought the proper. charge ^aSJHto0 of misehief and he wopld^ dealjH^ the defendant on that basis. fJ H dant was fined £1 and costs I^H