DESTROYING SIGNS
THREE DOCTORS FINED
,By Telegraph—. Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, Oct. 17. Three medical men, Drs Barrie, Riley, and Thompson, and Charles Melvin Focken, a lecturer at the medical school way© fined : eacli. £i> 10s in the Police Court and ordered to pay damage £lO sterling for wilfully damaging a Government advertising sign in Kawarau Gorge, which had been hewn down by them as a (protest against the desecration of the beautiful countryside. Magistrate Bundle remarked that defendants must have been intoxicated with zeal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1930, Page 5
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