GAME PROTECTION LAWS.
INADEQUATE PENALTIES.
The opinion was empahtically voiced by the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society recently that the penalties imposed by magistrates for breaches of the game protection laws were inadequate. Air A. Grayson said the society had already complained to the Minister for Justice about the smallness of the fines imposed in eases' of unlawful shooting of game birds and the unlicensed taking of fish, but apparently the onlyremedy lay in arousing public opinion. There "was the case recently of a man who killed 79 ducks in the Thames district, and who, although there u-as evidence that he had sold them, was fined the small sum of £l. There was too much disparity in the penalties imposed for oyster poaching and offences against the game protection laws. Mr G. Kelly mentioned an instance of a man being fined £o for taking an oyster and an instance of another man being fined £1 for shooting a pheasant. The chairman, Mr C. A. Whitney, endorsed the views expressed, and emphasised the paint that heavy penalties formed the only deterrent.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 April 1925, Page 10
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181GAME PROTECTION LAWS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 April 1925, Page 10
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