NATIVE GAME STORED
ILLEGAL AFTER 7 DAYS The submission of counsel that a person unauthorised to take or kill native game could hold game given to ■him as'a'gift by an authorised person for more than seven days after the close of the open season was not upheld by the magistrate. Mr. E. C. Levvey,' S.M., in the Magistrates Court in Christchurch, when the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society proceeded against George King, of Shirley, for being in possession of native game (grey duck) lor more than seven days after the close of the open season. . As it was the first case of its kind heard in Christchurch, the magistrate ordered King to pay costs. . Mr. Gresson, who prosecuted, said King had been given a crate of ducks and had placed them in cool storage, but the owner of the store knew the regulations and had told King that after seven days from the close of the season they had to be removed. King had then placed them in another cool store, and they had been found there by the ranger.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21142, 9 July 1943, Page 4
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