CALVES WITHOUT FOOD
S.P.C.A. PROSECUTION Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. The treatment of “bobby” calves which a.re being collected for the freezing works was again the subject of a prosecution in the Police Court to-day Tho defendant. Percy John Northcott, a lorry driver, collected some calves and placed them on a truck at Opunake, expecting the train to leave the same afternoon. However, the train did not leave until about 24 hours later. Northcott was charged by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with not supplying the calves with nourishment. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 440, 23 August 1928, Page 11
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100CALVES WITHOUT FOOD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 440, 23 August 1928, Page 11
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