PUKEKO AND PARADISE DUCK.
Mr A. G. T.nder, clerk of the Wairewa County Council, wrote from Little River to the Council of the North Cantcrbury Acclimatisation Society last night enclosing a motion passed by th'e County Council protesting against declaring an open season for pukekos and paradise ducks. "Paradise ducks are so tame that the slaughter during the first days of the season probably will almost wipe them out," the letter stated. "I'm quite satisfied we made an absolute blunder about the" pukeko, Mr 0. 11. Clark said. "We never should have allowed pukekos to be shot on Lake EHesmere."' The 'secretary said that a notice had been gazetted 'authorising an open s©:ibon for the two species for fourteen days. Mr Clark said that the only thin? was to a;k landowners to protect the birds as far as.possible. . ■ '* "We can't alter it now," Dr. C. M. Anderson, the chairman, said, and the meeting took no action in the matter.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 8
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