SPORTSMEN CHARGED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 15

SPORTSMEN CHARGED.

LICENCES NOT PRODUCED.

SHOOTING OF HEN PHEASANTS.

Several sportsmen who had failed to produce their game licences to inspectors were prosecuted in the Police Court yesterday. In "addition to a charge of failure to produce his licence T. Foot was charged with resisting and obstructing a ranger in the seizing of a firearm. For this he was fined £1 and costs, and on the former charge 10s and costs. Fines of 10s and costs were imposed on S. J. Bain. P. Pefcry and J. Gratwick for failure to produce licences. On behalf oi these men. Mr. E. Bartleet said they had all shot regularly for about seven years and their licences were in their camp. What Mr. West, who prosecuted, described as a particularly serious case, was the shooting of four hen pheasants without lawful authority, by E. Clinch and A. C. Price. This, said counsel, was an offence often committed, but exceedingly hard to detect. The men would not have been caught had not the ranger and Mr. C. Savage, a member of the council of th& Acclimatisation Society, seen them shoot the birds. A fine of £5 and costs was inflicted on each defendant.