CONTROL OF WILD LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 6

CONTROL OF WILD LIFE.

.The conference that is to be held shortly in Wellington between the Lands, Forestry, Agriculture and Internal Affairs Departments, to consider the control of wild life in the Dominion, should produce good results. It is a belated effort to! frame < a common policy, but better late than never. In recent discussions on.the subject-ifc- has-been pointed out rtn*at control of wild life is vested in several Departments, and. it has been contended that this responsibility should be centralised. Be that as it may, it is time that the; Departments conferred to eliminate conflict of interest and agree upon apolicy in regard to questions in dispute. New Zealand presents a terrible example of the effects of unwise acclimatisation and destruction. We have introduced birds and animals that should never have been admitted, and we have watched the thinning out of native birds. The policy has left.us with many problems, regarding some of which opinions, differ. The establishment of Vested interests has complicated issues. Rabbits, deer, stoats and- .weasels, opossums, native and "imported birds —all these raise questions of economic and scientific interest. The Conference should arrive at definite, conclusions, and the Government .shogkj. aei vpoa them.