EXPORT OF PLUMAGE.
CHARGE AGAINST MAGISTRATE. , . ~ . SYDNEY, Feb. 4;. In connection with the case cabled this morning, Oliver John Thompson, stated to be a New Guinea magistrate, was charged with taking out of the territory the plumage of protected birds, namely birds of paradise. The Crown applied for an order for Thompson 'o back to New Guinea. The.policitor" for Thompson asked for a remand to • enable an appeal to be made to the Supreme Court. He said the reports published in the newspapers regarding the case were exaggerated. Thompson; was H man who controlled twenty-five thousand natives, jn New. Guinea. _He had never been arrested and, when* he found the police" v?ere seeking him he approached them himself and declared that the case was all "some joke." A remand for fourteen days was granted, and bail reduced to £SOO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16349, 5 February 1924, Page 3
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