The possibility that a native pigeon, the kereru, was threatened with extermination because the Maori people had petitioned the Government for the right to slaughter it to provide a tasty meal for members of the Maori Battalion overseas was mentioned in a letter from Mr P. G. C. Goldsmith, of Auckland, received at the meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatisation Society. “Cun nothing be done to frustrate this reprehensible intention on the part of the Maori to the extent of prelecting this bird from the extermination threatened - .’ Is :! to be slaughtered under such n lliim-v pretext?” the letter added. Mr Goldsmith asked the society to make a prompt protest to the Prime Minister. “ 10 enter a protest, as fcj^quesxecl,
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23973, 14 June 1943, Page 4
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