A man was arrested, charged with intent to injure with reckless disregard and is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court next week, a police media spokesman said. While there is debate if the change would reduce the harm, Professor Emerita Jennie Connor from the University of Otago, an expert in alcohol harm, said the change would work.
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Addiction, a study of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, Connor looked at the effect of the 4am closing law. It showed an 11 per cent drop in weekend hospitalised assaults across the country, however, only a handful of premises were affected by the change as many closed earlier in the night.
Lysaght’s car hit the moped and the woman on her left leg, sending her into the air and landing on his bonnet. The woman was taken to Palmerston North Hospital with knee contusions, a sprained elbow and forearm, and a sprained tendon in her hand and wrist. When he was questioned by police at the time of the incident, he said: “I only saw the moped as the crash happened.” As Lysaght stood in the dock, his lawyer Mark Alderdice described to Judge Lance Rowe how his client had done everything he could to rectify the situation with the woman. His client was concerned a conviction and loss of licence would inhibit his chances of getting a job.
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 9:04 am
A Foxton man was sentenced yesterday after two dogs were
found at his home in severe pain and in need of urgent
medical treatment after months of suffering.
Ronald
Ward was convicted in the Palmerston North District Court on
two counts of ill-treating an animal causing it to suffer
unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress. He was
sentenced to 5 months’ community detention, 6 months’
supervision, ordered to pay $1,658.85 in reparations and
$500.00 towards legal costs. He was also disqualified from
owning all animals for 10 years.
The man came to the
attention of SPCA in December 2019 when SPCA Inspectors
received information about the condition of two dogs, which
He was banned from owning or controlling all animals for seven years as a result of the 2015 offending, but given an exemption to own two companion animals. That ban still applied when an SPCA inspector discovered Ward’s latest offending when visiting his Foxton property in December 2019. Wags, a brown and tan female huntaway, had a growth giving off discharge in her right ear and signs of disease in her left ear. She also had flees and signs of dehydration, with a vet finding she suffered for months yet treatment was simple. Heidi, a white female shih tzu, had heavily matted hair which hid her eyes and the pads of her feet.
Press Release – SPCA A Foxton man was sentenced yesterday after two dogs were found at his home in severe pain and in need of urgent medical treatment after months of suffering. Ronald Ward was convicted in the Palmerston North District Court on two counts of ill-treating …
A Foxton man was sentenced yesterday after two dogs were found at his home in severe pain and in need of urgent medical treatment after months of suffering.
Ronald Ward was convicted in the Palmerston North District Court on two counts of ill-treating an animal causing it to suffer unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress. He was sentenced to 5 months’ community detention, 6 months’ supervision, ordered to pay $1,658.85 in reparations and $500.00 towards legal costs. He was also disqualified from owning all animals for 10 years.