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PHEASANT SHOT. FOUND IN THE POT.£5 FINE FOR CHINESE.
A bird in the hand is likely to prove costly, especially if it happens to be a pheasant.: A Chinese, Low Hing Chong, discovered this when he was charged in the Police. Court to-day, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., with killing imported game and having imported game in his possession.
Following a complaint made by a resident of Reinuera, said Sub-Inspector Calwell, a constable recently went to Low- Hing Chong's market" garden in that d»ti ict, .when the Chinese admitted having shot a pheasant the day before. He said -that he had shot the 'pheasant because he was annoyed, the bird having been a nuieance in his vegetable garden. Tthe constable found that Low Hing Chong had-started to cook the pheasant," said Mr. Gal well.
Mr. Dyson, who appeared for Low Hing Chong, said defendant had set a line of fireworks in hie garden to scare away the' birde. But the pheasant in question was a wily bird and was not impressed by the crackers.' Low Hing Chong happened .to go out- to hie garden patch and found the pheaeant with sonic pea shoots in its mouth, so he shot it with a gun belonging to another Chinese. Having shot the pheasant he could not resist cooking it, but he didn't get the bird although it was actually in the pot, for the constable took it" away with him," Mr. Dyson said. (Laughter.) "It is only occasionally that he has used the gun and this is the first and only pheasant he has shot."
On the first charge Low Hing Chong was fined £5 and on the second and was convicted and discharged. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 254, 25 October 1940, Page 8
A bird in the hand is likely to prove costly, especially if it happens to be a pheasant.: A Chinese, Low Hing Chong, discovered this when he was charged in the Police. Court to-day, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., with killing imported game and having imported game in his possession.
Following a complaint made by a resident of Reinuera, said Sub-Inspector Calwell, a constable recently went to Low- Hing Chong's market" garden in that d»ti ict, .when the Chinese admitted having shot a pheasant the day before. He said -that he had shot the 'pheasant because he was annoyed, the bird having been a nuieance in his vegetable garden. Tthe constable found that Low Hing Chong had-started to cook the pheasant," said Mr. Gal well.
Mr. Dyson, who appeared for Low Hing Chong, said defendant had set a line of fireworks in hie garden to scare away the' birde. But the pheasant in question was a wily bird and was not impressed by the crackers.' Low Hing Chong happened .to go out- to hie garden patch and found the pheaeant with sonic pea shoots in its mouth, so he shot it with a gun belonging to another Chinese. Having shot the pheasant he could not resist cooking it, but he didn't get the bird although it was actually in the pot, for the constable took it" away with him," Mr. Dyson said. (Laughter.) "It is only occasionally that he has used the gun and this is the first and only pheasant he has shot."
On the first charge Low Hing Chong was fined £5 and on the second and was convicted and discharged. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 254, 25 October 1940, Page 8