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Pieter Nicholaas Smit

Convicted animal abusers /

Pieter Nicholaas Smit Published on stuff.co.nz on 28/06/2021 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/300344153/farmer-fined-for-unlawfully-amputating-cows-teats-in-waiuku A dairy farmer has been fined $3250 for unlawfully amputating the teats of seven cows. Pieter Nicholaas Smit, 60, has been sentenced at the Morrinsville District Court after he pleaded guilty to an animal welfare charge. The case involved seven cows over five years and was […]

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Alastair Robert Kane Hughes

Convicted animal abusers /

Alastair Robert Kane Hughes Published on stuff.co.nz 18/02/2021 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/02/waikato-farmer-fined-3500-for-starving-cattle.html A Waikato farmer has been fined $3500 after giving his cattle only half the feed they needed each day. Alastair Robert Kane Hughes appeared in Morrinsville District Court this week to be sentenced on two animal welfare charges brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

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Gary Kester Mathers

Convicted animal abusers /

Published 15/10/2020 on stuff.co.nz https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/123077201/waih-dairy-farmers-sentenced-on-animal-welfare-charges Gary Kester Mathers A Waihī dairy farming couple have been fined over $7500 for serious animal welfare charges. Gary Kester Mathers, 68, and Margaret Helen Mathers, 67, earlier pleaded guilty to seven charges which included failing to provide dairy cows with both proper and sufficient food, ill-treatment of cows and

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