THEFTS OF POULTRY
ORGANISED RAIDS HEAVIER SENTENCES ASKED FOR (Per Press Association) Dunedin, March 7. I; was stated at the poultry farmers’ conference to-day that tile theft of poultry: was an organised business In the north. Raids were made with lorries and cases were cited in Auckland and Christchurch where 500 and 400 pullets had been stoleu in one night. Wellington also suffered, hut Dunedin reported That its poultry losses occurred during railway transit. The conference resolved to draw the attention of the Minister of Justice to the lightness of sentences imposed upon poultry' thieves, and also ask tli c Minister of Railway's to act in regard to thefts from trains. The Government is to he asked to find tlie finance for a trial shipment of dead poultry to London. It was also reebmmended that tlie Government be asked to send Mr. F. C. Brown, chief poultry instructor, to the world congress at London.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 8 March 1930, Page 6
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