GIVING HER A START
AN EXPENSIVE SHOT COWBOY FINED (From Our Own Correspondent .) OPOTIKI, To-day. At the Opotiki Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. W. G. K. Kenrick. S-M., a cowboy named W. Stewart, Jfas charged with committing mischief by shooting at a cow with a shotgun. Rising out of the same offence Mr. 1. H- Curlett, station manager of Omaio, charged with causing mischief to be done by instructing an employee to B hoot at a cow. Constable Heaslip stated the facts * e re, briefly: The defendant Curlett. bad instructed his man Stewart to chase a cow off the property, and j*hen he got it to the beach to give a start with a shot. The cow had been annoying defendant. Stewart did as he was told and shot *he cow in the hind-quarters at close phge. The shot was intended solely 0 ffive the cow a fright. The magistrate said the cow may *ave been an annoyance, but they had bh right to shoot it. He therefore imPosed fines totalling £3 10s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 9
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174GIVING HER A START Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 9
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