NATIVE PIGEON SHOT
[BY TET/EGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] CARTERTON, Friday For shooting a native pigeon on llimutaka Hill. .Tack Tessaro, of Lower Hutt. was fined £7 by Mr. 11. P. La wry, S.M. The proprietor of the Summit tearooms said lie saw a pigeon fly across the road and heard a car pull ii]). followed by a shot. He took the number of the car and picked up fallen feathers from the bird. The police later traced the defendant, who admitted the offence, and said that, although he had taken the bird home and cooked it, it had been too tough to eat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 13
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