OPOSSUMS TAKEN BY POISONING
RANGER FINED AT INVERCARGILL (United Press Association] INVERCARGILL, 20th June. A case of interest to trappers was heard in the Magistrate’s Court at Lumsden, when Leslie Alexander Murrell, of Manapouri, a ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, and the holder of a trapper’s license, was convicted on a charge of taking opossums by poisoning. In imposing a fine of £lO and costs totaling £l2 ss, the magistrate, Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M. said it had been made abundantly clear to him that the line of 136 opossum skins which were the subject of the charge had been obtained by poisoning, and that defendant had abused his position as a ranger.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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