SHEEP CRUELLY STRUCK
COUNCIL’S FOREMAN FINED
“MERITS IMPRISONMENT” Press Association TIMARU, Today. “Although the circumstances are suspicious, it has not been proved that defendant ham-strung a sheep, but it is clear that he cruelly beat the animal. Somebody, at any rate, struck one of the sheep’s legs with a sharp instrument and this is an offence which merits nothing less than a term of imprisonment. I’m afraid I can’t accept the defendant’s statement that he gently touched the sheep with his shovel. He was obviously angry and allowed his temper to get the better of him. The defendant had a grievance against the informant and took his revenge on a harmless animal.” This statement by Mr. C. It. Orr Walker, S.M., was made today in the Police Court when George Joss, foreman, of the borough council’s gang at a water-race, was fined £7 10s and costs, amounting to £ 6 3s 6d, for having cruelly beaten a sheep at Fairview on November 21 of last year.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 13
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165SHEEP CRUELLY STRUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 13
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