STARVING HORSES.
A MAORI SENT TO GAOL. An unusual case was heard by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Te Ngohi, a Maori, was charged with failing to supply two of his horses with proper food and water over a period of three days. The evidence of the prosecution showed that there was no water on the defendants' section, four acres of which was sand. There was no water trough for the horses, which 6nc witness described as "only skin and bone." Constable Boulton gave evidence that when he arrived one of the. horses was struggling on the ground, and on examination proved to be in a dying condition, the sweat pouring from it in its agony. The other horse was standing, in a weak condition, and witness gave it some water, which it drank ravenously. It was eventually shifted to another Maori's place, and when he saw it last its condition was better, but he thought it very doubtful whether the animal would live.
The 'Magistrate said it was an extraordinary the grossest that had ever come before liim. The defendant was sentenced to one mouth's imprisonment with hard labor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1916, Page 6
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195STARVING HORSES. Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1916, Page 6
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