CONTROL OF WILD LIFE
NEW STATE DEPARTMENT?
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. "This means that, by creating a new State Department, control of wild life will pass from acclimatisation societies to the Government and that the voluntary work now being done by members will become a charge on the State," said Mr. D. J. Gibbs, chairman of the council oi the Wellington Wild Life Control and Acclimatisation Society to-day. He was referring to a statement made in Invercargill by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, that all pests, from rabbits to deer, should be under the control of a national wild life department, which should conduct research.
"Of course, license-holders will have to pay," said Mr. Gibbs, "but there is a limit to their contributions. The balance will be required to be found by the State. The present system of license-holders electing their own councils is most democratic and should be adhered to. as State administration takes away from the individual the personal interest he has in wild life of the Dominion.
"No attempt at national reforms should be made without the full consent and co-operation of all wild life control and acclimatisation societies," concluded Mr. Gibbs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 286, 3 December 1941, Page 10
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