During the hearing of an acclimatization case in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, Mr Gray, who appeared for the Society, said the tui was now becoming a rare bird, but the rarest of all native game was the huia, there being only one part of this island where it could be secured, and that was in the neighbourhood of Hunterville, whence came the birds in question. There was no excuse for shooting these birds, because they were absolutely protected—there was no season in which they might be shot.: The Society was making every effort to preserve both the tui and the huia. Collectors in foreign countries were making efforts to secure specimens, and Baron Rothschild was known to have had an agent in the colony who. was offering as ranch as £5 per bird for huias.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 254, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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