TOWN CLERK FINED
CITY GUARDIAN’S LAPSE TOO MANY DECOY DUCKS The town clerk, Mr. J. S. Brigham, was fined 40s in the Police Court today, as the result of a day’s shooting in company with H. A. Chatfield and Bertram Xoakes. They pleaded guilty to a charge of using more than 25 decoy ducks within the area allowed. The Acclimatisation Society’s prosecutor said that the offence had been committed through the defendants shooting together from a punt instead of being separated. “Like good sportsmen, they had made statements to the ranger, and left the shooting ground when approached,” said the prosecutor. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, fined each of the defendants 40s=
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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113TOWN CLERK FINED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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