AN EXPENSIVE "KILL."

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 15 June 1923, Page 5

AN EXPENSIVE "KILL."

i GUNMAN FINED £10. 1 FOR SHOOTING HEN PHEASANT. ' A prosecution under section 40 of the ' Animals Protection Act was brought against Lionel Richard Maynard in the r Police Court ■ this morning, the Aucka land Acclamatisation Society having laid 3 an information against defendant in ' respect of the shooting of a hen D pheasant at Flat Bush in April. Mr. Wilson, for the Acclimatisation <l Society, stated that elefendant had been J approached by the ranger in connection 1 with the offence, and had given an mv- " correct address and a wror.g name. - Owing to the fact that the number of ' elefenelant's gun was noted by the • ranger, his correct name was ascer- ' taineel after a great deal of trouble. 1 and the summons was eventually served in correct form. Under section 40 of the Animals Protection Act a penalty of £25 was provided for the act of shooting a hen pheasant. The samp act was also an offence under section 0. if • committed in tho- close season. Tt was a general offence tn shoot imported game in the close season, but the fact l that the bird was a hen pheasant made it much more serious. "The Acclimatisation Society liberates a considerable number of birds annually, for which .El per bead is paid" said counsel. "If people arc allowed to go out in the close season it means that all the birds wjll. be killed off and by the time the real sportsmen I get there y thev will not have a chance, ; bad noted it wrongly. 1 "You aggravated the offence by slioot- J ing out of season" said Mr. J. E. Wile son. S.M., in imposing a fine of £10, i with costs 7/. ■