CRUELTY TO GULLS
CHINESE GARDENER FINED "I find it difficult to have any sympathy for you at all," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday,' when a Chinese market gardener, Leslie Sue Naek, of Panmuro, was charged with cruelly ill-treating two. red-bill gulls by plucking their tails and wing feathers and tying them by tho legs to a post. Mr. Wallace appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty. Evidence was given on behalf of tho Society f for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that after tho birds had been found dead defendant admitted plucking them and tying them to a stake. Some of tho flesh had been torn away. Mr. Wallace said extensive damage had been caused to market gardeners' crops by tho depredations of gulls. Defendant was lined £2, with costs, a similar penalty being imposed on a second charge of taking two absolutely protected birds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22100, 4 May 1935, Page 16
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