DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN
Effect On Game Not Known
With a view 7 to preservation of the game population in the Harts creek area 1044 vermin were destroyed between January. 1954. and the same month this year, a Work carried out by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.
A report presented to the Society's annual meeting last evening said it was difficult to supply factual data on the results achieved as they affected the game population of the area, which is a wildlife refuge, because of the very large variation m water level and weather from season to season It was considered, however. that the population of ducks in the last breeding season was equal or greater than it was in the previous year. The Wildlife Division of the Department of Internal Affairs had now' taken over the refuge with the intention of continuing active investigation into vermin destruction and the society's council had arranged with landowners to trap Other areas with a view to the extension of the work. Individual totals of vermin destroyed in the period were: eels 188. ferrets 38. cats 14. rats 37. opossums 26. hawks 642. magpies 60, and other birds 39.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 7
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