South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 16 May 1942

Slaughter of Pigs

Prosecution at Barnsley

“This sort of thing has been rife in the district and the Ministry of Food Is determined to stop it.” said Mr. W. Winter, who prosecuted at Barnsley on Wednesday in a series of cases of breaches of the rationing orders.

Martyn Hibbert, roadsweeper, Great Houghton, was fined £ 5 and costs, and Clement Beckett, market gardener, Hemsworth, was fined £6 and costs. Arthur Hepworth, labourer, Great Houghton, was fined £3 and costs; John Davis, miner, Great Houghton, £2 and costs; and Thomas H. Wigley. Miner, Great Houghton, £2 and costs.

Mr. Winter said Hibbert slaughtered a pig and sold half to Beckett for £10. Hlbbert said Becket let him have some swill, and in return he sold him half the pig. Mr. F. Brown, defending submitted that arrangements for purchasing the pig were completed weeks before it was slaughtered, and therefore it was Beckett’s property.

In the other cases. Mr. Winter said Davis and Wigley unsuccessfully applied for licences to slaughter. It was found that neither owned a pig and that after Hepworth had killed two pigs Davis bought one for £14 10. s. and Wigley bought the other for £13 10 s.

Mr. Brown contended that Wigley, and Davis arranged to buy the pigs months before they were slaughtep red and that Hepworth merely looked after them.