CONTRADICTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —Seeing a paragraph in your paper of to-day’s date accusing three men of shooting hares out of season, I wish to call the attention of the gentleman who was on his way to Karori that had he been a sportsman he would have known the difference between a hare and what we were carrying, or otherwise he displayed a considerable amount of ignorance in not being able to tell hares from rabbits (which we were really carrying). Being one of the so-called poachers, I could not let the matter pass without having a shot in return. Hoping, in the event of his meeting any other persons carrying game which he suspects of being protected, he will not let them pass without first satisfying himself that such game is protected.—l am, &c., Sportsman.
December 4. . [ls not our correspondent a little rash in hastening so eagerly to “ put on the cap 1 ” If he and his friends were carrying rabbits, they clearly could not have been the same persons who were seen with hares. — Ed. N.Z.T. j
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 771, 10 December 1886, Page 20
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