RARE BIRD DESTROYED.
TRAPPER FINED £7O. A FLAGRANT CASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Aesn.) INVERCARGILL, Friday. A case that was described by the magistrate as the worst and most flagrant of its kind that he had ever dealt with was heard in the Police Court to-day, when Thomas Jackson Smith, a trapper, was charged with taking opossums during the close season, and with killing wood pigeons, kakas, wekas and a South Island crow. This crow r is an exceedingly rare native bird, and in convicting Smith the magistrate said that if he had the power to do so he would have considered sending Smith to prison for destroying this bird. Smith’s operations were carried out at Stewart Island. Fines totalling £7O were imposed by the magistrate.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17614, 19 January 1929, Page 7
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