SHOT HEN PHEASANT
TWO SPORTSMEN FINED From Our Own Correspondent JIORRIXSVILLE, Today. His suspicions aroused by the reply given him by two sportsmen he met near Tahuna on the opening day of the shooting season, an inspector of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society searched a motor-car, finding a hen pheasant in the carrier. Yesterday L. Colson and R. L. Dodd were each fined £1 in the Morrinsville Magistrate’s Court on a charge of having a dead hen pheasant in their possession. Dodd, who was also charged with shooting the bird, admitted the offence. Dodd explained that he had just (S?* ,?ir^ UCk + \ nd ’ seein & another bird iise close at hand, tok a 'pot-sho; ” bringing it to earth. Ho then diJ covered that it -rs a hen 1 but put it. in thJ Sar as "J: it a pity to waste it. iii s An been confiscated by the ranger. ’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 18
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148SHOT HEN PHEASANT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 18
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