TUATARA LIZARD
( A FARMER'S OFFENCE. [PEB PBE3S ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, January IS. A rare prosecution ligured on the list at the Magistrate's Court to-day when Phillip Shand, of Sound, a farmer, was charged with taking an absolutely protected animal, a tuatara lizard. The chief ranger of the Marlborough Acclimatisation Society said ' that Shand removed the lizard from I the Trio Island, off the mouth of Pelorus Sound, on November 15, and took it home to show members of his family. He then went to work at Kaikoura, leaving instructions for the reptile, a large specimen, to be returned to the island. In the meantime the ranger received an anonymous letter to the. effect that someone had removed the tuatara from the island. After extensive inquiries the reptile was located at Shand’s farm. A serious aspect of the case, said thej ranger, was that tuataras were prac-l t.i<ally extinct. Trio being one of the! icw islands where they wore now I found. 'l'b,. internal Lew'v! — - anxious to th J in facta Blenheim be.-uli- j iiKulc application* Io LUO" Minister <0 retain a lizard in captivity at. a park, but permission was The Mi-yim.ruA hi. t. y.,- >|.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1939, Page 4
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