TO INCREASE GAME
REARING OF PHEASANTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, July 3,
An extension of the activities of tlxe State Game Farm, Rotorua, provides for the handing over of pheasant eg. 55s to individual members of rod and gvrn, clubs of the Rotorua acclimatisation, district who wish to undertake tlte rearing of birds for liberation.
The Minister of Internal Affairs (tlUe Hon. W. E. Parry) stated that an increased production of pheasant eggs at the farn*was likely and the placing of surplus eggs for hatching with members i.i rod and gun clubs seemed % good course to take to encourage the* breeding of game birds for liberation.
Fines of £2 and costs and £1 and costs for being disorderly while drunk and for using obscene language respectively were imposed on Thomas Whitjehead Johnstone, a scullion, aged 24, \xy Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court V;3l3rday. A default sentence of seven days' imprisonment Was fixed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 7
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156TO INCREASE GAME Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 7
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