IDENTITY OF SHEEP.
BRAND OR EAR-MARK? By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day five or six fyours were spent on a dispute between two farmers, who are neighbors, as to the ownership of four sheep, one claiming on a brand and the other on an ear-mark. The evidence of the local stock inspector and the secretary of thee Sheepfarmers’ Union showed tnar an earmark alone was quite unsatisfactory as a mark of ownership, there being so many marks duplicated in the district that “the sheep have not enough ears to carry marks for everybody.” Other evidence as to sex, breed and age was contradictory and confusing. The magistrate dealt at some length with the diffculties met with in sheep stealing cases in which an ear-mark was relied on, and gave judgment in favor of the claimant by a brand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1922, Page 5
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143IDENTITY OF SHEEP. Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1922, Page 5
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