GERMAN OWLS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 11

GERMAN OWLS

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

The repqrt of the sub-committee set up to interview the Department of Internal Affairs on the menace of German owls was received at the meeting of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society yesterday.

The deputation consisted of the secretary (Captain B. V. Sanderson), Messrs. A. E. Wilson and Kirk, and it reported that, the Department stated emphatically that it had no mone3' and could not participate in a bounty on German owls, or in any other means of combating the evil. Further, it had no voice in. the disbursement of wild life funds received by acclimatisation societies under the Act of 1921-22. Tho total revenue received by acclimatisation societies for 1932 was £26,000. In previous years this was greater, as then more revenue was obtained from .opossums. The Minister (the Hon. J. A. Young) came into the room later, and the deputation reopened the question. He promised to remember the society's representations as far as godwits were concerned. The Minister, it was stated, appeared sympathetic with the society"'s aims, and "knew more than Ministers generally know about wild life matters." He intimated that in all matters J3i which the society required remedies public backing was essential, and the society could assist in this direction. ;