SANCTUARIES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21903, 2 October 1936, Page 10

SANCTUARIES

MINISTER’S WARNING PROMISE THAT LAW WILL B® ENFORCED (PSIS3 ASSOCIATION rELEGBJOt.) WELLINGTON* October 1.. “Parliament passed a law to protect native and game birds, and the ■police, assisted by the of Internal Affairs andacclirnaffi^^. tion societies, will see that that" Jawy. = , is fully administered,” stated, ■. Hon, W, E, Parry to-day. “A- per-, son who lolls game and other birds' in the waters of public reserves which are sanctuaries merits the ; f y utmost penalty the law provides.” / j Mr Parry was referring to several 'j complaints * that bad officially r reached him lately of birds—-wild j ‘ : duck and pukeko mostly—which had been killed in permanent patches of : water in certain of the and on little rivers that ran through them, where they had taken up their ; - ? abode. “A person who shoots or, takes a bird from any of these little streams of a town where people, par-: f ticularly children, like to see water y birds with their young, is no sport or ■. lover of nature,” the Minister “It is because of the depredations of ■ persons of that type, lacking in all; public spirit and feeling, that laws have to be passed to punish them. . Only that morning, he said, a resident of Hutt Valley had brought him a complaint that some unsportsmanlike person had wantonly killed some native ducks and pukeko in the Waiwhetu river. Quite apart from breaking the law. it was mconceivable that a person should be so wanting in sportsmanship, civic -; pride, and thought. TO CORRESPONDENTS 4 . .. * - -55 —*— .-4 I. Letters sent to the Editor,for printing must be written in ink on one side of the paper only and writers , must send in their names and ad- | dresses in fulL whether they xnxa these to be printed or not v? 2 Writers must say clearly whether % or not their letters are being, or have been sent to other papers. ■ 3. The Editor cannot return or keep , J any letter which for any reason is , unsuitable for printmg. he acknowledge unsuitable leuara, although this Will be done where y it seems to be needful, or enter into any correspondence aoou. letters-sent In.,