FOUND WITH PUKEKO
young MAN FINED £5 A CLOSE SEASON The minimum penalty of £5 was imposed when W. H. Durbridge was charged at the Police Court this morning with taking ,nd killing game during the close season and without a licence. He pleaded not guilty, and Mr. Routledge. Acclimatisation Soicety insnector, said that on May 5 at Paumure he had accosted defendant and his brother. The latter had proved to have a licence, but defendant had uot, and a game bag with a pukeko in , t was over his shoulder. Both men had guns, and there was a setter dog with them. Durbridge urged that his brother had shot 1116 Pukeko and that he was looking lor hares and rabbits only. He had shot nothing, and did not know that It wa s a dose season for the nukeko. You are liable to a penalty for „ re n having the bird in your possion." remarked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 11
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161FOUND WITH PUKEKO Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 11
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