FROM "THE PRESS" OF 1864.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
"Our attention has been called to the barbarous practice of killing the ducks and other wild fowl during the preseut time, when the birds are breeding. Every poulterers shop in the town is full of these birds, many of them probaoiy shot from off tho nest, to the destruction of the young ones. If this is to be allowed, the island will, in tho course of a few years, be destitute of game. The subject is well worth the attention of the Acclimatisation Society; they are working hard for the introduction of foreign birds into New Zealand, and : it would at the same time be advantageous, if, through their instrumentality, a law could ke passed for the preservation of those species with which Providence has blessed the country."
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15121, 10 November 1914, Page 5
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