BOUNTIES ON VERMIN DISCONTINUED
OTAGO ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY’S POLICY
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 31
In five years bounties amounting to more than £l3BO have been paid by the Otago Acclimatisation Society on about 29.000 vermin. The bounties were withdrawn last month, because it was considered that they were being paid for vermin which would have been killed in any case, and that there were probably as many vermin now as ever.
“There is also the question whether those animals and birds—stoats, ferrets. hedgehogs, hawks and owls —are detr’mental to game birds.” said Mr L. Millar, secretary of the societv. "It is intended to spend the money formerly snent on bounties on research to determine whether anv of those animals are noxious, and to find the best way of controlling them.” '
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 4
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