KILLING OF SEALS
TWO MEN EACH FINED £50
Hv I'eJenraph—Hress Association.)? INVERCARGILL, December 2. On a charge of killing seals illegally, William Edward Lawrie, aged 23, and Hugh Phillips, aged 24, appeared^ in the Magistrate's Cdttrt in Bluff today. Each was fined £50.
Counsel for the Collpctor of Customs said that Phillips and Lawrie were master and mate of a trading' lauriph. They had been suspected for some time, and a raid resulted in the finding of ten sealskins. The two men admitted clubbing seals on Chalky Island. Only one of the three years of the close season had passed. "I cannot believe these men we're ignorant of the law," said t Mr. R. ;C. Abernethy, S.M., "and I am not prepared to regard the offence as a senseless escapade."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 13
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130KILLING OF SEALS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 13
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