OPOSSUMS POISONED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A fine of £10, with costs £7 15/6, was imposed on Frank Clark by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of unlawfully taking or killing opossums by means other than snares or traps. Mr. G. C, Watson, who appeared for the Acclimatisation Society, said it was obvious to the rangers that of 92 skins submitted by accused, between 50 and 00 were from poisoned animals. The chief ranger for the society said that accused told him 00 had been poisoned. Accused denied that he made that statement seriously. He claimed that certain of the skins exhibited were not his, and that his name had been written on them by another. The magistrate said that with such an abnormal number of dead skins the only legitimate belief was that accused poisoned the animals.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 16
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