THEY SHOT THE WRONG BIRDS.
SPORTSMEN’S ERROR COSTS THEM £2 EACH
For mistaking the ,identity of birds at Lottery Bush, near Waiau, last October, Herbert Alfred Bevan and George Campbell O’Malley were each fined £2 by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. O’Malley and Bevan pleaded guilty to a charge of shooting wood pigeons, which are absolutely protected birds. Mr Archer, who appeared for the Acclimatisation Society, said that the defendants were members of a party of five men at Lottery Bush. They had only one rifle, and it appeared that they had succumbed to the temptation to shoot the birds. Mr Holmes, for the defendants, said that they thought the absolutely protected bird was the Chatham Island pigeon, and they did not think that tlxis bird was the same as the native pigeon. Sam Ferguson, also prosecuted by the Acclimatisation Society, was fined £2 for having Paradise clucks in his possession.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18088, 23 February 1927, Page 9
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