Police say a mystery $65,000 stock theft has left the victims "extremely gutted''. Mataura Police issued a public appeal yesterday, following a lack of leads concerning the rustling of 320 sheep and eight rams from a Waimumu farm, believed to have occurred during Easter. Mataura Constable Wayne McClelland said a stock theft of this scale was "unusual'' in his experience, and had caused considerable distress to the farm owners. "Obviously a theft of this magnitude, where you've lost tens of thousands' worth of property, would hit anyone pretty hard. It's a significant loss of assets given the size of the farm in question.''

Source: Otago Daily Times May 20, 2019 16:30 UTC