CAMPAIGN AGAINST POACHERS
, -TN'GIDEN.T.AT JVAINUI-Q-MATA'. .. As" tfic ii.utc'onie' of Seyefal complaints maile id tlie AVellington Acclimatisation Society rSgardiug. po’actiing. .which ‘ has. been going bn unchecked .in certain localitieii',' niiich' ganfe' being killed, a campaign has been organised against persons responsible for the poaching. (On S.iturdiiy last a poacher was apprehended at Wainui-o-mata, and' alter a fradas had ensued, his rifle was Confiscated. '''While preceeding up the Wainfli. hill, two rangers "noticed a man carrying a rifle, with A stispicibus parcel ou t he, carrier of the bicycle he was riding. 1 ' "lYiey stopped him and opened the paueel,'which wad found to contain a large piecg of venison and the skin of a fawn.- ■' The rangers "Called on Iho n'.an to give up his rifle. He refused', and when one of the rhhgci's'a'ttempted to carry 'but his diity, struck ’ h’m ; ■ bu-was ‘ overpowered without .much difficulty.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 6
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144CAMPAIGN AGAINST POACHERS Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 6
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