BIRD DRUGGED AND KILLED
Man Fined £5 "The Press’’ Special Service HAMILTON, September 3. A man who administered a sleeping draught to a cock pheasant and then beat it over the head with a stick was charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Huntly with taking game by means other than shooting with a shotgun. The man, Albert Henry Fisher, was fined £5 by Mr S. Hardy, S.M. Harry Atkinson, senior ranger of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, said that Fisher had admitted the offence. The bird was one he had captured in his garden two years ago. It had since been used for breeding. He had decided to kill it because he thought it would make a good trophy. “I asked him why he hadn’t let it go and had a shot at it as he held a shooter's licence. He said he might have missed,” said Atkinson. Mr R. McDermott, who appeared for Fisher, said Fisher thought “this would be a more humane way than blowing it to bits in the air.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29609, 4 September 1961, Page 17
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