NATIVE CROW SHOT
SALUTARY FINE IMPOSED. | BIRD ALMOST EXTINCT. “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 last week it convincing 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 be was making the fine a salutary one. so as to deter anyone else from destroying absolutely protected game.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 9
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164NATIVE CROW SHOT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 9
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