CHINESE PLUCKS SEAGULLS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 4

CHINESE PLUCKS SEAGULLS

CRUEL ILL-TREATMENT.

MAGISTRATE lAIPOSES FINES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Afay 3

Prosecuted by an inspector, Mr Hollingsworth, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on two charges, a Chinese named Leslie Sue Nack pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day. He was charged on April fl with taking two absolutely protected birds (two red-billed gulls, Turapunga) and with cruelly ill-treat-ing the birds by plucking their tails and wing feathers and tying the gulls by their legs to a stake. Air 'Hollingsworth said that when he took possession of the two gulls thev were dead. Defendant admitted having tied them to the stake. Air Hollingsworth said that in the plucking of the birds a portion of the flesh had been torn awav. Afr G. AVallaee, on behalf of Sue Nack, said seagulls had been doing ex-, tensive damage to his market gardens and they were also a source of trouble to gardeners. The magistrate said Sue Nack was liable to a fine of £25 on one of the charges. “I find it hard to have any sympathy for you at all,” he said, m fining defendant £2 on each charge plus costs £1 7s.