SWANS' EGGS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18921, 9 February 1927, Page 11

SWANS' EGGS.

Iu THE EOITUI! UP TUi: IP.F.j-i. Mr. In reading tlio report 01 a reifiit Mvan egg Court case. I notice that .Mr 1!. Twynchani .-ay, that the Anlimatisation Society has an absolute monopoly HUT the swan eggs. I quite agree with .Mr Twvnoham tliat oim> radical alteration should Ik; made -o\ ( nun- th t . collecting of eggs. No doubt yon HJ|| remember that the Acclimatisation Society during the war got permission to "collect eggs lor the Lady Livci'iKjol fund, and no doubt raiied a considerable sum of money, "ml ulnn tlie war was over they then collected the eggs for their on n funds, so you uill see it was a ease of ''giving an inch and taking a yard." I think it is time that tho collecting of eggs was stopped absolutely, as swans are ut»t nearly ho numerous as they «oro ten years ago, and again I believe that in the egg season any eggs that are "turned" are deliberately broken, so you will see why the swans are not so plentiful as in recent years. The Natives of Little Jtiver and Taumiilu recently sought permission to collect eggs for fo-id, but the Society objected to this, mi what grounds I do not know, seeing that Lake F.llesinere belongs to the Natives, and not to the Acclimatisation Society.—-Yours, etc., SWAN'S NKST.