PEA RIFLE SHOOTING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18217, 3 October 1919, Page 11

PEA RIFLE SHOOTING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I can thoroughly agree with four correspondent "L. C. Walker" ks to the danger from youths with pea rifles in Bromley. livery Saturday »nd Sunday there are several in tha district shooting from ttie road (which is illegal) at' birds. They do ' not trouble to see whether any person or animal is behind the bushes. Or the} will trespass on people's lands shooting at anything they can see. A horse has been shot, one man lost all his turkeys, and a number of fowls havo been shot. A week or two ago I reported to the police that thiue men in a motor-car had been firing at ebetric poles at the corner oi three roads when they could only see people approaching a yard pr two on either side The Heathcote County electrician informs me that an average of a a week is broken, chiefly on the Woolston side of the district. As it is illegal to shoot «;n a road, and no per mission has been giver: to go on th«. people's properties, the youths with pea rifles have :.<o right in Bromley *nd I hope will be stopped.—l am, et<;., GEORGE K. BURTON.