A COMPLAINT
Sir, —Although Anzac Day is observed as a Sunday throughout the Dominion, evidently the Acclimatisation Society think differently. It seems that it tUkcs advantage of this sacred day to search roadmen’s camps during their absence, in search of opossum skins. On returning to camp on. Monday • evening, I found my bedclothes and private gear strewn tall over the floor. Upon inquiry I found that an Acclimatisation officer had been caught in the act of searching tho tents. When accosted, he produced a piece 1 of paper which ho said was a warrant. Do you think it fair, Mr Editor, that honest people should have to suffer such indignities, even though they happen to temporarily reside in the district where opossums are to be found —I am, etc., ALEX QUINLAN. KauUngaroa, April 26.
(The Acclimatisation Society informs us that an officer of the Society, armed with a warrant, visited a camp, showed his warrant to two men who offered no objection, Und conducted a search in perfectly legal form.—Ed.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 6
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170A COMPLAINT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 6
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