SETTING FIRE TO GRASS.
[PRBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] DUNEDIN, March 14. At the Police Court to-day three youths were fined £1 18s each in all, or three days' imprisonment, for setting fire to grass and five. The information was laid under the Police Offences Act instead of Malicious Injury to Property Act, where there is no alternative to imprisonment, the prose outor not wishing to be severe, but to warn others. The youths were out rabbit shooting and used fire to drive rabbits out of the flax. Complainant had, a few weeks before, his house and everything in it burnt down from a similar cause.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7259, 15 March 1889, Page 5
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