TRESPASS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 9

TRESPASS

THE SPORTSMAN’S POSITION The question of trespassing on private property by sportsmen, and th< consequent disturbing of stock, cropped up at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society as the result of a letter on the sub ject from the Department of Internal Affairs. The Department wrote that a remit had been passed at the last annual Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, urging that Section 38 of the Animals Protection and Game Act ,1921-22. should !><• amended in order to deal more stringently with the question of trespass, and while it was not considered desirable to amend the section in ques tion a provision dealing with the matter, wns made last session in an amendment to the Stock Act, See tion 4 (1). of the Stock Amendment Act. 1927. and read as follows;— “Every person commits an offence and is liable to a fine of £5. who without the authority of the no'-iny l "- goes upon anv private land with dog or gnu and disturbs any stock depot tured thereon.” The chairman. Mr. C. Fl. Ln’’ rence: Ido not know whether we can take any action in this matter. It will be very awkward for sportsmen who are not after hares or rnb bits, i .c letter was received,