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ILLEGAL KILLING OF SEALS. < (Per Press Association —Copyright). . INVERCARGILL, December .2. For killing seals illegally, William Edward Lawrie, aged 23, and Hugh Phillips, aged 24, appeared in the Magistrate’s ■ Court at Bluff .to-day. They were each fined £SO. Counsel for the Collector -of Customs said that. Phillips and Lawrie were master and mate respectively of a trading launch. / They had been. suspected for some time, and a raid resulted in the finding of 10 seal skins. The two. men admitted clubbing seals off Chalky Island. Only one year of the three years’ close season had passed. “I cannot believe that these’men were ignorant of the law,” said Mr R. C. Abernethy, S.M., “and I am not prepared to regard the offence as a senseless escapade.” APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL. WELLINGTON, December 2. The Court, of Appeal to-day granted, to Hoani Te Heulieu Tukino (chief of the Ngatituwlinretoa tribe) leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Court of Appeal j in -favour of the Aotea District Maori Land Board, thase case having been heard by this Court on October 3. The Court fixed security for appeal at £SOO, to be dispatched within three months, and the record' to be dispatched., within four months. I <
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1938, Page 3
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