NOXIOUS BIRDS?
Sir, —In reply to “School Teacher Two,” the Forest and Bird Protection Society, Wellington, will probably supply details of the caterpillar plague in Canterbury. The president of the society recently sent me an article in which it is stated that “an army of caterpillars, hundreds of thousands strong, was overtaken by a train” in the Rangitikei district. The wheels failed to grip, the engine stopped, and sand had to be put on the rails. The same thing has happened in other parts of the country after indiscriminate destruction of small birds. When will farmers and local bodies learn that birds make agriculture possible by checking insect pests, and that a book too little read in this New Zealand says that the servant is worthy of his hire?— Yours, etc., BIRD LOVER. November 17, 1942. [“T.A.S.” may, if desired, briefly reply; otherwise this correspondence is closed.—Ed,, “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23799, 19 November 1942, Page 6
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149NOXIOUS BIRDS? Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23799, 19 November 1942, Page 6
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