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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 162, 9 July 1907, Page 6

The Qnehunga police waat an owner ] for a number of cheques and a sum of money, which were handed over to them by a lad who picked the lot up in Queen- : street, Onehunga, last evening. 1 Small birds exercise considerable discrimination in the selection of their diet, \ and what is greedily devoured one day will be rejected on the day following. This affects particularly the laying of poisoned grain, and some county coun- 1 cilloTs of Bruce have had peculiar experi- i ences in this connection. One council- < lor informed the council that he placed i some poisoned grain, two years old, i under some trees some time ago, and ' picked up afterwards 160 dea<f birds j under one tree. Thinking that old i poisoned grain was preferable to new, 1 he immediately procured an additional supply, only to find that the alert sparrow had no regard for Ese abundance ■> placed before him, and absolutely re- ' fused to notice it. A settler in another • part of the district has recently had a similar experience, and wrote to the council yesterday that he had, as a result of one day's poisoning, secured 140 dead birds under one tree from one-year-old poison. Some of the councillors are anxious to know the result of a repeti- 1 tion of the operation, as their hopes i have been raised in the same way only < to find that the small bird is something < more than fastidious in regard to food, 1 and that he looks with suspicion on the i corn that is scattered with a iaeriaik ]