OPOSSUMS POISONED
RANGER BEFORE COURT J FINE IMPOSlD;;; ,- (Per. United ; Press Associations; -^ INVERCARGILL, June 20. A case of interest to trappers was heard in the Magistrate's Court at Lumsden, when Leslie, Alexander Murrell,' of Manapouri, a ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, and the holder of a trapper's licence, was convicted on a charge of taking opossums by noisoning. Imposing a fine of £lO and costs totalling £l2 ss, the magistrate, Mr W. H. Freeman, said that it had been made abundantly clear to him that a line of 136 opossum skins which was the subject of the charge had been poisoned, and that the defendant had abused his position as a ranger. ' •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23222, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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