GAME OUT OF SEASON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 April 1934, Page 3

GAME OUT OF SEASON

BREACH OF REGULATIONS

FINES at CHRISTCHURCH

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

CHRISTCHURCH., 11th April. Hotelkeepers who wish to provide their guests with native game during the close season now have no means o! doing so. , Appearing this morning for the North Canterbury- Acclimatisation Society in prosecuting for breaches of the Game Regulations, Mr M. J. Gresson draw attention to the regulation that states “Any person authorised to take or kill or to sell imported game or native game may place in any freezing or coo 1 , chamber any such game, which may he kepi until recpiired. hut not beyond seven days alter the close, of the open season.'' Another regulation provided lor the keeping of a register of all game kept in any freezer under these regulations.

Ernest Boulton, Henry J. Crust, and Alfred M. Green were convicted and ordered io pay costs on charges of possessing game without authority at the premises of P. Feron and Son. E. J. Newman, manager of Feron’,s Freezing Chambers, was convicted and discharged for failing to keep a. register of game in the cool chamber. ‘‘Well, this is the first occasion iu ten years that such a case has been before me,” said Mr Lawry, S.M. “Thi: will act as. a warning.”