SHEEP BRANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 May 1907, Page 2

SHEEP BRANDS.

Per Press Associatiou. Wellington, Hay 21. A legal point regarding brands was settled by Mr. Justice Cooper, in giving judgment in the ease of Mills v. liiddiford, an appeal from the decision of the Stipendiary Magistrate at Wellington, dismissing an information laid by nppellant, an inspector of stock. The informal ion charged respondent with unlawfully branding sheep with an unregistered brand, namely, females with a quarter out of the right ear, and males with fork out of left ear. The -Magistrate held that the brand as used was tl:j registered brand, and that therefore no offence had been committed. Respondent's registered brand was a quarter of the right ear and a fork out of the left ear, and his custom had been for a number of years to brand female sheep with a quarter out of the right ear and males with a fork out of the left car. His Honor held that that was not legal use of his registered brand. It was the whole brand which was registered, and not a part, of it for one class of sheep and part of it for another class. The appeal must be allowed, with ,C 7 7s costs, and the case remitted to the Magistrate willi a direction lo convict.