HORSE CRUELLY TREATED
FINE OF £lO FOR NEGLECT Prom Our Own Correspondent WANGANUI. Today. Saying that it was a disgraceful case of neglect, Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., yesterday fined James default 24 hours’ imprisonmept, on & charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a horse. The magistrate added that if defendant had not been suffering from an infirmity the penalty would have been heavier. Senior-Sergeant McLean said that the horse had been lent to McKinnon. Later its owner had found it in a shocking condition. One hoof had come light off and the bone was showing. Also, th© animal was in such poor condition that it should have been destroyed. Defendant claimed that the trouble had begun when the horse was trampled on by another at a blacksmith's shop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 936, 1 April 1930, Page 10
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