NATIVE CROW SHOT
SALUTARY FINE IMPOSED.
COMMENTS BY MAGISTRATE.
Te Awamutu, May 8.
“The native crow (kokako) is a very rare, almost extinct bird, and the one shot was probably the only one of the species in this part of the Dominion,” said Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., in the Te Awamutu Magistrate’s Court to-day in convicting Clifford Brunton of shooting a native crow on Pirongia Mountain on Sunday, April 30. Defendant, who is employed at a relief camp at Puketotara, was fined £lO and costs. It was admitted he had shot a kokako and at least one tui.
A companion, Frederick Smith, was fined £5 and costs for shooting native pigeon. The men had been caught in illegal possession of the game by Constable G. R. Rimmer, of Te Awamutu, and J. Dobson, ranger for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society.
The magistrate, referring to the first case, said he was making the fine a salutary one, so as to deter anyone else from destroying absolutely protected gams. ’ '
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1933, Page 7
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