Invergordon Farmer Fined $40,000 for Animal Cruelty
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Phone 5862 1034 – Fax 5862 2668 – Email - Editorial: [email protected] - Advertising: [email protected] – Registered by Australia Post – Publication No. VA 1548 established 1895 LEADER NumurkahWEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2021 $1.30 INSIDE A NUMURKAH man was taken to hospital by ambulance following an accident that saw his vehicle become airborne on Monday. See story page 3. Heroes Honoured See story page 5 Dramatic 65 years together See story page 10 crash Invergordon farmer fi ned $40,000 for animal cruelty AN Invergordon dairy farmer has been found and without water at Mr Phillips’ property near In- Agriculture Victoria Animal Health and Welfare guilty of eight animal cruelty charges and ned vergordon. Compliance Manager Daniel Bode said the farmer $40,000. e o cers rst visited the property in October failed to comply with notices under the Prevention Ian Andrew Phillips, 58, pleaded guilty to four 2017 a er receiving a complaint about the welfare of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986. counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, one of fail- of cows on the property, and Mr Phillips was issued “ roughout the period of o ending, cows and ing to provide drink for animals, two of failing to with a number of Notices to Comply as a result of calves continued to su er and were not being pro- provide treatment for a sick or injured animal and that visit. vided with appropriate food, water or treatment,” one of omi ing to do an act which by doing so was On two subsequent visits in June 2018 o cers Mr Bode said. likely to cause pain or su ering, in Shepparton Mag- found a pen of 12 calves with no drinking water or Magistrate Frances Medina noted the level of istrates’ Court on April 14. dry place to stand or lay, and a Jersey calf in anoth- o ending was obvious given the condition the an- ree of the aggravated cruelty charges were for er pen also had no water, and another cow was ex- imals were kept in, and labelled it ‘quite appalling’. Fun in cruelty which resulted in the serious disablement of tremely thin. “In terms of o ending it’s obvious to me, the na- an animal, and one was for commi ing an act of cru- At another property owned by Phillips, they found ture in the conditions these animals were kept, and elty that resulted in the death of an animal. Katty six cow carcasses in a paddock, including one which the su ering and sometimes death, as a dairy farm- e charges related to two separate periods in had died while calving, one which had had a broken er you have responsibility for the husbandry,” Ms 2017 and 2018 when Agriculture Victoria o cers leg for several weeks and one that had been strug- Medina said. See story page 11 observed a number of calves deceased, and those gling but unable to rise for more than a day. 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Decker Maurice R. & G. Shepparton Road and Labuan Road, Marungi at 5/5 V. Dickinson McNamara & Co Chessells 4.20pm. Tallygaroopna a ended, Wunghnu was L. Watson E. Adams M. Caccianiga stopped enroute. 6/5 S. Kennedy At 9.10pm on Friday, Katunga and Strathmer- VOLUNTEER L. & M J. Stanyer 7/5 REQUIRED Mitchell ton brigades were turned out to a car re on Coordinator – MHA Care Phone 5742 1111 Numurkah Road, Katunga, approximately four kilometres south of Strathmerton. e Holden sedan’s driver, and their two pas- sengers, must surely have go en the fright of their life when smoke and ames appeared from under the bonnet as they were driving along. COME AND SEE US e driver pulled the vehicle over to a safe part of the road, and ames engulfed the vehicle im- mediately a er the occupants got out. e cause of the re is unknown, however it is not being FOR ALL YOUR treated as suspicious. e car was burnt out. Another car re occurred at 8.15pm on Satur- day, this time drawing a response from Wunghnu and Numurkah brigades. e incident occurred at Boundary Road, Tallygaroopna, between Gra- ham and Kellys Roads, when the car burst a hy- was transported to hospital by ambulance. Po- Grant Track, Shepparton North. e re, which PRINTING draulic hose which sprayed oil onto the motor, lice were in a endance. was thought to have been started by a camp re which caught re. In between the vehicle incidents, there were that was le una ended, burnt about half an Monday was also a busy day for vehicle inci- also a number of grass res. acre of scrub. Crews were on scene until about FLYERS dents, with Yarroweyah brigade called to do a At 3.10pm last Tuesday, April 20, Waaia Fire 6.30am, and then Tallygaroopna and Wunghnu wash away of diesel resulting from an accident Brigade was called to assist Nathalia and Picola were called back to the scene at 11.55am, when at the corner of Koonoomoo/Mywee Road and BUSINESS CARDS brigades at a tree re at Horners Road, Nathalia, the re ared up again. GV Highway, Koonoomoo 3.15pm. between the Murray Valley Highway and Pom- Later, at 5.20pm, Katunga and Strathmerton en, at 3.55pm, Numurkah brigade was frets Road. Waaia didn’t have a driver, so one were called to a grass re opposite the Katunga called to another washaway, this time at the cor- MENUS member went by private car to assist Nathalia. South Primary School at Hays Road, Katunga. ner of Harding Court and Katamatite/Nathalia en on Sunday, at 3.15am, Tallygaroopna and e occupier was burning o and the re burnt Road. A car had run into the rear of an SUV, the Kaarimba brigades were called to a grass and onto the roadside, burning about 100 metres by MAGAZINES car ending up on its side. e driver of the car scrub re at the corner of McClelland Road and ve metres. CALENDARS POSTERS UP TO A1 PROMOTIONAL IsPOLICE are seekingthis the owner of a toolbox, fullyour of tools, found on Dol- toolbox? PRODUCTS phin Street, Numurkah, on February 1 this year. If this belongs to you, please enquire at Numurkah police station. WE CAN EVEN DESIGN IT FOR YOU! NumurkahLEADER Ph. 5862 1034 88 Melville St, Numurkah Numurkah Leader is bound by the Standards of Practice of the Australian Press Council. If you believe the Standards may have been breached, you may approach the newspaper Is this your toolbox?...Police are seeking itself or contact the Council by email the owner. ([email protected]) or by phone ([02] 9261 1930). For further information see www.presscouncil.org.au. NumurkahLEADER 88 Melville Street, Numurkah VIC 3636 Dominique James Harrison Heather Joanne Phone: 03 5862 1034 Cosgriff Su on Reid Kelly Crisara www.numurkahleader.net.au Editor & Senior Graphic Cadet/Sport Sales Admin Journalist Journalist Published by Jinki Sixteen Pty. Ltd. Designer and printed by Newsprinters Pty Ltd [email protected] design@ sport@ sales@ printads@ Registered by Australia Post - Print Post publication no. 100002644 [email protected] leader.net.au leader.net.au leader.net.au leader.net.au NumurkahLEADER, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 — 3 Dairy Car gets airborne and farmer ends up on it’s side pleads guilty, Dramatic scene... The Astra’s driver received fi rst aid from witnesses before being taken fi ned to hospital by ambulance. $40,000 for animal cruelty Continued om ont page. Her Honour found it aggravating that even a er the department had visited the property in 2017 Mr Phillips made no change to practices and commi ed further o ences the following year. Phillips’ defence counsel said his client, who moved to Invergordon in 2010, had farmed for 43 years and had exhibited the Champion Interbreed A 28 YEAR-OLD Numurkah ner of his vehicle. Cow at the Royal Melbourne Show man was taken to GV Health Witnesses said that, a er mak- while farming in Echuca in the 1990s. by ambulance on Monday, a er ing contact with the Colorado, e defence said at the time of the his Holden Astra collided with the Astra became airborne and inspections Phillips was milking a cou- ple of hundred cows and by 2018 he another vehicle in a dramatic rolled onto its roof before land- was under massive stress as there had incident at the intersection of ing on its driver’s side. been li le rain. Katamatite-Nathalia Road and e Astra came to rest in the Mr Bode said apart from the obvious Wall Street, Numurkah.