FINED FOR SHOOTING TAME PHEASANT
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).— Charged with killing native game at Whitianga during the closed season, J. C. Clough pleaded guilty before Mr J. Morling, S.M., in the Police Court today. “The defendant, while driving along the road in a motor-car, shot a cock pheasant with a pea rifle,” said counsel for the Acclimatisation Society. “It was a tame bird well known to local residents and respected as such.” Clough told the Magistrate he had acted on the spur of the moment, not realising it was out of season. When Mr Morling asked him' what he was doing with a rifle, Clough replied he was going on a fishing trip and had the rifle to shoot shags; The Magistrate fined Clough ' £5 and ordered him to pay the solicitor’s fee.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1949, Page 5
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