WORK WITH NATURE
Plea for Bird Protection “In the past the white man has robbed the birds of their homeland, most of theit homes, persecuted them and destroyed them in all manner of ways, li id waste the forests with fire,.and imported planteating animals in a seemingly boneless endeavour to attain prosperity,” states a writer in “Birds,” the journal of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection - Society., “The Maori did not daily toil from eight to five, and lived in. health and strength in the same land for 800 years without laying the. land waste. It has been aptly said that we should give the country back to the Maori and apologise for making such a mess of it. A ray of light is now, however, appearing on the distant horizon, arid it may be that the white man will, before long, realise that he must, work with' Nature, riot against her, lest he .perish.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 13
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155WORK WITH NATURE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 13
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