DEATH OF A PEACOCK
£5 DAMAGES AWARDED PRINCESS AS PIiAINTIFF (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Magistrate’s Court at Ngaruitwahia was occupied for some time in hearing a case in which Te Puea Haerangi, trustee for the owners of Kimikimi pa, sued Fred Davies, a fish hawker, for £5 damages for a peacock which had been run over and killed b.Y the defendant's tiuck. The evidence showed that all motor traffic in the pa grounds had been prohibited by Te Puea, and that the defendant had- been notified of the prohibition. The plaintiff gave evidence that the person who had given her two pea- , cocks had sold the other birds for £3 w* each. The bench gave judgment for the amount claimed, and cost 3, on the ~ ground that although not a useful bird the peiucoek had a special value as an ornamental bird, especially in well-kept park-like areas such as Rimikimi pa.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 6
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