£100 IN FINES.
TEN SEALS KILLED. TAKEN OUT OF SEASON. MASTER AND MATE IN COURT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Friday. For killing seals illegally William Edward Lawrie, aged 23, and Hugh Phillips, aged 24, appeared at the Magistrate's Court at Bluff to-day. Each was fined £50. Counsel for the Collector of Customs, said that Phillips and Lawrie were master and mate respectively of a trading launch. They had been suspected for some time, and a raid resulted in the finding of 10 sealskins. The two men admitted having clubbed seals on Chalky Island. Only one of the three years' close season for seals had passed. "I cannot believe that these men were ignorant of the law," said Mr. R. C. Abernethy, S.M., "and I am not prepared to regard the ofifence as a sense-
less escapade."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 12
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