OPOSSUM KILLING
.Poison-laying Alleged
Charges against Vivian Leslie MeGhie and Donald John McKenize, of unlawfully killing opossums were heard before Mr. E, -Page, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, both defendants pleading not guilty. Mr. G. G. Watson appeared for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, the prosecutors in the action, and Mr. A. B. Sievwright for the defendants. The prosecution alleged that defendants killed the animals by laying cyanide poison. It was alleged that this poison also had the effect of causing other opossums to leave the places round which it had been laid. This is the first prosecution of its kind in New Zealand. The proceedings lasted all day, and were then adjourned’ until Thursday next,
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 290, 2 September 1933, Page 8
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116OPOSSUM KILLING Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 290, 2 September 1933, Page 8
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