SHOOTING DUCKS OUT OF SEASON.
[by TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Palmerston North, Monday. In the S.M. Court this morning, on the information of the Acclimatisation Society, William Smith was fined 40s, and cost:]; £1 12s, for shooting gray ducks out of [season. . The defence set up was that I the shooting occurred on defendant's own property, and that he therefore had a common law right- to do so. Mr. A. D. Thompson, S.M., held that whatever such right he might have had had been taken away by a subsequent enactment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13273, 4 September 1906, Page 5
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89SHOOTING DUCKS OUT OF SEASON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13273, 4 September 1906, Page 5
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