ALARM ABOUT KEAS
COMPLAINT OF LOSSES
Alarm at the depredations of the kea in the high country in Canterbury and Otago was expressed in the House of Representatives last night by Mr. T. D. Burnett (Reform, Temuka), who deplored the fact that the amount.to be paid on bonuses fov the destruction, of-the-bird had been reduced in the Department of Agriculture Estimates. Mr. Burnett said, that in his own fiock of 6000 merinos the'annual ..loss was between 500 and 600, per annum. He asked the Minister to pay a bonus of Is per head to keep the lambs alive. This would go a long way to keep the confidence' of the Crown land settlers. The local bodies in the high country were so keen on keeping down the kea that they subsidised the Government grant. The depredations of the keas had cost the sheepfarmers hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 8
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ALARM ABOUT KEAS
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 8
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