FAILING TO REGISTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 44, 16 February 1912, Page 5

FAILING TO REGISTER.

At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr. IV. G. Kenrick, S.M., the Borough Inspector proceeded against a number of residents for failing to register their dogs. In one case Mr. Fookes appeared for the informant, the defendant stating his own case, and in another the defendant (an old woman) also a open-red. F. Scanlan, when charged with failing to register his dog, stated that the animal, a bitch, belonged to a man in Palmerston North, and he only had the animal for breeding purposes. He went to the Town Clerk’s office and asked to register the dog in the owner’s name, but Mr. Skoglund was not in,, and the assistant clerk referred defendant to him. He understood that if he registered the dog in his own name, he would thus be claiming the dog as his own, and could bo sued bv flic owner.

The Magistrate remarked that the dog must either be registered or destroyed. Ho would be fined 5s for failing to register, with costs 17s Pd. Margaret Day, an old woman, when charged with a similar offence, said l that the dog belonged to a Mr. Smith. It was not her dog, and she could not keep it away. She had asked people to take the dog. She could not destroy it. The case was adjourned, the Magistrate repeating the statement that the dog must be registered nr destroyed. William Blair. Steve Fahey, E. Chard, wore fined ss, and 7s costs, for similar offences.