RELIC OF ENGLISH GAME LAWS
CONFISCATION OF SPORTING GEAR “This practice of ordering the forfeiture of guns and other sporting material in cases in which people are convicted of breaches of the game protection laws is a relic of the old English game laws. Forfeiture was used by the landed gentry of England as a means of putting down poaching,” said Mr J. Robertson at the meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatization Society last night. It was decided that representations be made to the council of South Island Acclimatization Societies that the provision for forfeiture of guns and other legal instruments of sport be deleted from the regulations. The question was introduced by Mr Eustace Russell, who said that if there were no confiscation magistrates would impose more adequate monetary penalties, though the society did not press for heavy penalties except in cases of poaching. But with no confiscation tire penalties would be more even and fairer. The confiscation of a working man’s gun was likely to be a much heavier penalty than was the confiscation of the gun of a man of means.
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Southland Times, Issue 24484, 11 July 1941, Page 4
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