TAKING OF OPOSSUMS
UNLAWFUL MEANS USED OFFENDER FINED £lO [BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Fridsr A fine of £lO, with costs £7 15s 6d, was imposed on Frank Clark by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-dav on a charge of unlawfully taking or kifling opossums by means other than snares or traps. Mr. G. C. Watson, who appeared for the Acclimatisation Society, said it was obvious to the rangers that of &2 skins submitted by accused, between 50 and 60 were from poisoned, animals. The chief ranger for the society said that accused told him 60 had been poisoned. Accused denied that he made that statement seriously. He claimed that certain of the skins exhibited were not his, and that his name had been written on them by another. The magistrate said that with such an abnormal number of dead skins the only legitimate belief was that accused poisoned the animals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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154TAKING OF OPOSSUMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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