Midnight chase after poachers
PA Rotorua A Forest Service ranger was jammed to the bonnet of a poacher’s getaway vehicle during a 20km chase up Mount Tarawera on Tuesday night. Rangers on patrol about 11 p.m. disturbed a group of deer poachers in the Waiotapu recreational area. As the poachers attempted to get away in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, the ranger. Mr Stewart Henderson, of Kaingaroa, was jammed between the . vehicle’s bonnet and brush guard. A high-speed 20km chase to the top of Mount Tarawera followed, along winding metalled forest roads.
The Acting Conservator of Forests at Rotorua, Mr C. A. Skudder. said yesterday that the chasing vehicle made radio contact with the police at Rotorua who dispatched cars to Tarawera mountain. At the top of the mountain the pursued vehicle was stopped and it and several rifles were confiscated. Mr Skudder said that during the chase Mr Henderson was frightened and extremely cold. Yesterday morning he was shaken, .but otherwise unhurt.
The Waiotapu area is closed at present because of fire risk and the fact that sambur deer in the area are being monitored.
Mr Skudder said the Forest Service might refer the matter to the Crown Law Office to recommend poaching charges.
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