Farmer fined $20,000 for unlicensed gun and ammo

Meanwhile, a farmer from Burrell Boom has pleaded guilty to firearm charges and was fined twenty thousand dollars. Thirty-seven year old Clifford Nicholson was stopped by police on February fifteenth of this year as he rode his bicycle through the village with his sixteen gauge shotgun slung across his back. Nicholson could not produce a license for the weapon or the seven cartridges he was carrying and was immediately arrested. This morning he appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where he pleaded guilty to keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition and was fined ten thousand dollars for each offence. Lord ordered Nicholson to pay three hundred dollars by November thirtieth and the balance by January fifteenth of next year.