CATS ON HEREKOPARE.—An announcement that an effort would shortly be made to exterminate the cats on Herekopare Island was made by Dr C. C. Anderson at a meeting of the Southland Branch of the Royal Society. He said the sum of £35 was in hand and at least another £lO had been promised. Mr Woodrow, deer culler of the Department of Internal Affairs, had promised to visit the island at the end of the month. Mr L. E. Richdale, of Dunedin, would go to the island this week. Both would be active in exterminating the cats. ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.—Clifford Douglas Keane, who escaped from a warder while being placed in a prison van at’ the rear of the Supreme Court on August 13, after having been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland yesterday to a charge of escaping from lawful custody. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.—P.A.
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Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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