UNUSUAL CHARGE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 6

UNUSUAL CHARGE

USE OF MOTOR CYCLE. SPORTSMAN PROSECUTED. WHANGAREI, May 23. '' An unusual case, the first of us kind in the district, was brought iii’ ! tlie Police Court this morning by the Wliangarei Acclimatisation .Society rigaiiist Clifford Payne,who owns charged with shooting a; pheasant from a motor-cycle ..A-.charge of discharging a firearm oii’a public road was dismissed. ' ■ ' -V Mr J. F. S. Briggs, for the society, said' the defendant had previously’been’ warned-. against shooting from his.cycle., -The charge was laid tinder tlie" Aiiinnds Protection Act which provided that no person should use or cause to be used ■unity ino tor ; Vehicle' in' 'connection with the taking or killing of game, provided that this condition should not be construed as to prohibit thet u'scV bI J travelling!to or from a rendezvous.. .. . A said lie •'ih’te’rpreted ' the' regulation to mean that anvoiie who was driving along the’ roiicl and, seeing a game bird,’ stopped and shot’it was’ contravening tlie regulations. Jn this instance the defendant sliof a pheasant from astride his cycle. - . “This regulaiou is not as well known as i t might be, ” said, Air. o'. ,Morris,.. S.M.; f ‘and deserves 'publicity: In ' riiiy ease the Public Works Act makes it definite that a man must not shoot from the road.” . ’ ’

A fine of 30s and costs was impose^