Published on 1news.co.nz on 09/12/2025 https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/08/auckland-man-fined-9800-for-serious-neglect-of-animals An Auckland man has been fined $9800 and had restrictions placed on how many cows and horses he can own after pleading guilty to three charges under the Animal Welfare Act. Kevin Maurice Dell, aged 70, pleaded guilty to the charges after being prosecuted by the Ministry for Primary […]
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Published on NZ Herald 01 June 2023 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/napier-farmer-sentenced-after-35-calves-die-mpi-officers-spent-10k-trying-to-save-them/5IT3MUKHGNBAHB3HRU5XX37U2Q/ Napier farmer sentenced after 35 calves die, MPI officers spent $10k trying to save them Animal welfare officers bought more than $10,000 worth of feed as they tried to save the lives of hundreds of starving calves at a farm property near Napier. But their efforts were
Published on 24/04/2024 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/131856646/canterbury-farmer-sentenced-to-home-detention-for-hundreds-of-calf-deaths A Canterbury farmer found responsible for the death of 610 calves has been sentenced to seven months’ home detention. Rakaia calf-rearer Lisa-Jane Claire Miller was sentenced in the Ashburton District Court on five charges under the Animal Welfare Act following a prosecution by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Miller was
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John William McFall Published on www.stuff.co.nz 11/02/2021 A Rolleston pig and cattle farmer has been fined $3500 for failing to euthanise an extremely emaciated calf that had body sores and hundreds of maggots in its mouth. John William McFall, 55, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday on an animal
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Published on stuff.co.nz 22/06/2018 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104920012/nelson-farmer-banned-for-illtreatment-of-dead-rotting-and-dying-calves A Nelson judge found himself in a “very difficult position” when finding an appropriate sentence for a 77-year-old Richmond farmer charged with animal cruelty. Inspections of a Redwood Valley beef farm belonging to Raymond Albert Gardner, 77, uncovered dead, rotting, and dying calves, cows in “obvious pain and distress” with
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Published on the SPCA website 14/06/2016 https://teachers.spcaeducation.org.nz/about/news/shannon-farmer-starves-calves-to-death-again/ A Shannon farmer has been convicted for the second time for neglecting calves until they die. Carl Smith, 56, was convicted today in the Palmerston North District Court on charges of reckless ill-treatment of two calves, one of which died of starvation and the other had to