STARVED TO DEATH.
TWENTY SHEEP BUCCUMB. LEFT IN BARE PADDOCK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Stated by the prosecution to have left 80 sheep in a paddock so bare of pasture that 20 of them died of starvation, James Kitchen appeared before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., In the Palmerston Court to-day charged with falling to supply sheep with proper and sufficient food. It yvas stated by the inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that on July 22 the sheep were in a paddock belonging to the borough of Palmerston. On going through them he had oounted 60 live animals and 20 dead ones. There was no feed of %ny description In the paddock, *and no attempt whatever had been made to provide any. The living sheep were In very poor condition and several were staggering about through weakness. The cause of the death of the 20 sheep was undoubtedly starvation. The magistrate oonvicted, and fined Kitchen £7, with costs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 2
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165STARVED TO DEATH. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 2
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