The effectiveness of a pea-rifle -bullet formed the subject of discussion in a case heard at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court recently (says the "News"). Counsel stated that no one would suggest that a man would go pijr-hunting, for instance, with a pearifle, but the Magistrate replied that he himself had actually done such a thing. The effectiveness of a pea-rifle bullet, he considered, depended on the variety of the pig- "Old boars cannot be touched with a pea-rine bullet, lis said, "but young pigs, which are not so tough, certainly caa»"
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 7
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