SPARROWS FOR N.Z.
Early Export Fropi U.K. (From the fLondon correspondent of i 1 "The Press.") One of . Britain’s earliest exports to/ New Zealand were 100 pairs,’ of sparrows. The price— £1 a pair. The sparrows were sent to New Zealand to deal with a plague oj caterpillars “imported from somewhere else,” said Mn Arthur Bottomley, the Conuhonwealth Secretary. *7 am glad to say that our sparrows appear to have done their jOb well; indeed, perhaps top well, for they so thrived ' and multiplied on their diet of caterpillars, that they themselves became a plague./ But we were not at a then did a good trade with yea to sparrowhawks. “Sineeli then we have never looked tjack," he told a New Zealand" Society dinner in
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 16
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