FEROCIOUS MAGPIES
Attack Small Boy SHOOTING BIRDS ILLEGAL •Dominion Special Service.,' ’ Feilding, Nov. 8. The ferocity of magpies in the Kimbolton district was illustrated by the president. Mr. F.' H. Stockwell, at a meeting of the Feilding Acclimatisation Society last night. Mr. ,Stockwell said that recently a small boy had been badly pecked about the face by these birds as he was on his way to t school. The boy’s mother had been obliged to seek assistance and beat off the birds with’ a stick. There was no exaggeration about the report, as he had seen the boy concerned. Mr. Stockwell said the society’s rangers had no authority to destroy magpies, but at the conference of acclimatisation societies it was stated that anybody seeing a bird attacking a person could destroy it, though in doing so he would be diable to prosecution. Authority had been obtained for the destruction of the birds causing the trouble'in the Kimbolton district, but no action had been taken, as some of the settlers in the district were opposed to the shooting of the birds.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 39, 9 November 1932, Page 5
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180FEROCIOUS MAGPIES Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 39, 9 November 1932, Page 5
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