NOT A "SPORT"
PROTECTION OF PIGEONS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. "There is no sport in killing wild pigeons. They aro so tamo you can almost knock them over. They are a rare and beautiful bird, and it is necessary to impose a substantial penalty," said the Magistrate, Mr. Hewitt, this morning when two men wore charged with shooting native pigeons at Featherston on 18th August. Bach was fined £10, and convicted on a second charge of entering a State forest reserve with a rifle without a permit. Confiscation of the rifles was ordered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 10
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96NOT A "SPORT" Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 10
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