ALBATROSS COLONY satire rralzpc melancholy
Sir The news makes melancholy reading that a sitting Royal Albatross on Otago Peninsula had recently to be destroyed because its wing had been shattered by some person stoning it, its egg also having been smashed. Such an occurrence is a shaming indictment of our parenthood. I do not hold that children should receive their ethical training in our schools. There they should study scholastic subjects; ethics should be taught in the home. Cruelty for gain, though deplorable, has at least a logical motive; but this is sheer wanton cruelty and destructiveness. It is difficult to understand the mentality of a person who would stone a sitting bird; but the blame lies less with the perpetrator of the crime than with those who should have trained him. The Forest and Bird Society (not a wealthy body) works patiently; but until parents realise and shoulder their responsibilities, such outrages will continue. -Yours, etc., R.ILM. January IX -•* -
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25390, 13 January 1948, Page 5
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