THE CLOSE SEASON.
COMPLAINTS IN THE NORTH. frY TELEGBAPH— SPECIAL TO MI POST.J _ AUCKLAND, This Day. The Kaiparc Chamber of Cotrmerce has decided to support the petition of the Hobcon Acclimatisation Society that the present year bo declared i"i open one for the shooting of imported ,iaine. Several spoke strongly on the matter, and declared that if the season was a close one, much loss would ensue to small landholders, who:;e crops would be devastated by pheasants. Farmers reported that the seabirds wore unusually plentiful, and that in many instances double clutches were a fact, and that in place of the clutches averaging three to five chicks, they were actually eight to ten. Several numbers asserted that failing tlir> Minister's consent, poisoning of pheasants would (his year have to be rcsojted to, for their depredations were serious. In the lower Waikato, both ducks end imported game are reported to be very plentiful, and in fact, pheasants, it is said, aro in greater evidence this season than they have been for several years past, anJ* they are doing considerable damage to crops of maizo and turnips. Fanners declare that they cannot allow tnc birds to continue thtnughout the season causing the present depredations to crops.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 3
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204THE CLOSE SEASON. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 3
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