IN THE PUBLIC MIND.
PROTECTED GAM£. A MARKET GARDENER'S COMPLAINT. (To the Editor.) I should like to know what any member of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society would do if he were in my position. Being one of the unfortunates out of a job, I thought I would make a job for myself, so I took a little hit of land in the suburbs with the idea of market gardening. I worked very hard through the winter to prepare for the season's crops, but note my luck. I put in nearly a. quarter-acre of peas and could not understand why I got such poor results. I put in a lot of beans and the same thing occurred. I blamed grubs, starlings and sparrows, but have found it was pheasants. I have seen quite a lot, as many as six, fly up at one time, and to-day I saw a pheasant hard at work on my beans once more. Yet one lias no power to do anything, as they are protected, and I understand the penalty for killing one of the birds is £10.' S.T.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 263, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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183IN THE PUBLIC MIND. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 263, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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