RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT
THIS DAY. (Before JJ. C. Lawlor and J. Kilgour, Esqs., J's.P.) UNBEGISTEBED DOGS.
Peter Solaa was charged with allowing a dog to be at largest Karaka on the 3rd inst. without a collar for the current year being affixed thereto. " .f ; 4
Defendant pleaded guilty, and Was fiued 5s and: costs.
-''Patrick Hirk was also charged with allowing a dog to be at large at Tararu on the-3rd inst, withbut a collar for the current year being affixed thereto.
Defendant said his dog was only three months old, and he did not think it was necessary to have a collar till^y^Msix months old. He had, hower^^^Hfcie the day after ho had been spok^^^^But it. - ' * ' v ... Mr Bullen said he believe^HPfthe defendant had said was tr.ue, aad as he was only a recent arrival.?nd. probably ' ignorant of tlie law on the matter, he asked to withdraw the charge, at the same time he informed the Bench that he did not intend to ask for any more withdrawals in cases of this sort merely on account of collars having been procured after the summonses had been servedi ■•:": / Charge withdrawn. . - . : NEGLECTED CEIIiDBEN. John and Augustus Hi^gins (two little boys apparently about 4 arid 6 years old) were charged with being neg'ected children, not being under proper care and control.
Mr Eullen said the father of the two cMldre.i was iv South Australia, and the mother had been committed to prison on Saturday last for ?two months ; they (the children) were therefore totally un<\;red for. The man who had been living with the mother of the children had agreed to take one of them, but refused to take charge of any more. Ho thought it desirab'e that the Bench should serdthe two children then in Court to the Industrial School. The mother had requested that they should be educated in the Church of Jingland faith ; she had given their ages as five and seven respectively. Both the children were sent to the Industrial School (Auckland) for a period of seven years.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2599, 7 May 1877, Page 2
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