SHOOTING GAME IN RIVER
SPORTSMEN FINED. “ I want to have your Worship's ruling on the section,” declared Mr Colin Taylor in the Magistrate’s Court this ■morning in entering a plea of not guilty on behalf of three men accused of shooting duclc unlawfully on the Waikato River. Senior Sergeat Sweeney conducted the case for the prosecution. The three defendants, Alexander Murdock Bellany, (engineer), William Gribblc (carpenter) and William Henry Jones (lorry driver), had taken a launch up the river, and near the pumping station two duck Hew up and were shot at by one of the defendants, one duck being brought down and secured. Further up the river, on private property, two more fell to the sportsmen’s guns. ,* His Worship thought that there was case.'to answer in using a launch or power boat in connection with the taking or killing of native game contrary to condition 5 imposed by the Minister of Internal Affairs. There was no doubt in his mind that the, men went out, with the intention of shooting duck. The question of penalty was another matter. No harm- had been done. Eacli man would be fined 10s.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17169, 3 August 1927, Page 8
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