PROTECTING SILVER-FRONTED TERN.
■ — OFFICIAL AND GUNSPORTSMAN. . Il3y Telcuraph.—Rpcclal. CorrcflDondentJ Christchurch, September 16. In a letter read .at tho meeting. of the Canterbary Acclimatisation Society last .evening the secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatisa'tion !Society, referring to the .alleged destruction of tho silver-frosted tern, stated that shortly after the tern were protected, some, soven years ago, lie had caught a young man in the act of shooting them, . the offender having fourteen wounded birds in his possession.; .The.man refused, to give his name,, and thereupon the writer had, confiscafcd .his. gun, telling him -that he would bo able-,to. obtain it, at tho police station. It was. six years'before the young .man applied at the' police .station. for. -tho, weapon. The secretary added; that his action had proved very effective;" verjt. few tern now being shot on the Ashburton. side of the Kakaia. '.' Mr. Edgar Stead, commenting on the:letter, said- that the. writer was entirely'\irTOng in stating that very few, tein' were, being 'shop on tho Ashburton side. Hundreds of theso .birds, he sa:J, must have recently been destroyed, for their bodies were continually drifting down stream. On two. or three ocoasions he had prevented people from shooting them. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 8
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