‘BARBAROUS PRACTICE’
Capture of Wild Birds
A strong protest against the timing and caging of wild birds was brought before the House, of Representatives yesterday in the form of petitions, signed by more than 5000 persons, which requested the Government to bring down legislation abolishing the “traffic in birds.” The petitions organised by tlie Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, regretted that, no action had been taken to prohibit the “cruel practices of bird liming and the traffic in caging of wild birds, which were forbidden by law in England and many other countries. Here (it was stated) the barbarous practice of bird liming was permitted, even in domains and other bird sanctuaries. while bird caging was not only continued but increased.” These practices, stated the petitions, not only caused unnecessary cruelty, but inculcated in many boys a cruel and unsympathetic feeling toward creatures both wild and tame.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 8
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150‘BARBAROUS PRACTICE’ Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 8
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