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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1911, Page 2

Referring to the question of poaching, the president of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society (Mr E. W. Payton), in the course of his annual report, remarked that during the year there had been a considerable expenditure, in the way of payments to rangers, subsidies to country societies, and other proceedings, with a view to the conviction of illegal shooters. The various local committees had been active in the suppression of poaching in their respective districts, and this had been accompanied by excellent results. The council was anxious, however, to secure the co-operation of all local sportsmen and- to further the establishment of all local clubs and committees wherever possible, so that as much as possible might be done in the suppression of poaching, which, despite the best efforts of all concerned, was still going on.

A boy named Horace Arthur Mannering, aged six. was injured by an explosion in Palmerston on Tuesday. The tips of three fingers were blown off, and the boy was also wounded in the thigh. It is supposed that the accident was caused by a dynamite cartridge. The boy's sister, aged seven, was with him at the time* and said he was hitting a nail against a piece of tin with a stone.