/ 24 August 1999

MAN HELD FOR POISONING GAME

POLICE in Messina have arrested a 34-year-old man for poisoning more than 50 head of wild game at a dam on a Northern Province farm last weekend. Messina police spokesman Captain Thomas Bilankulu on Tuesday said a 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday afternoon while selling guinea fowl flesh to workers at Doreen Estate, a lemon farm. Workers at Ostend Farm, 20km east of Messina, found 51 carcasses beside a 10 000-litre dam on August 16. The man is expected to appear in the Messina Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.