SAVE THE BIRDS
"Bird Lover" wants a tax on to preserve the birds, whose ravage® on grain crops alone adds 50 to wper cent to the cost of our daw bread. Gooseberries, currants, straw* berries, cherries, plums, peaches ana even apples could be had for -Wj picking (as in pre-civilisation days' but for the ceaseless destruction wrought by imported "featheren friends." The wax-eye is the Ow native bird which gives us tnttCT trouble, principally to grape Nature's laws are immutable. must "eat" or he "eaten." The ine®* do not "inherit the earth"; tWEr perish through disregard of e .SS law. Enemies must not be pernuttea to whistle lis into submission or snare, nor lure us to the rocks as did the sirens of old. "Music M® charms"; but the cats' music Willi* found, on careful analysis, to be BWj nitely less expensive than that of u® birds, "lovers" notwithstanding. BIRD TAX
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 2
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151SAVE THE BIRDS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 2
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