MAGPIES AS KILLERS
PROTECTION A MISTAKE?
The Wellington Acclimatisation Society has ranged itself definitely on the side of those who consider that magpies are a menace to other birds and that the protection which has allowed them to increase greatly during recent years should be removed. At Wednesday's meeting of the society (Dr. G. P. V. Anson presiding), Mr. F. Willis presented a strong indictment of the magpie which he described as a "murderous little brute." He ran briefly over the first-hand evidence he possessed in support of the removal of protection, and said that he personally had seen a magpie kill a pigeon and even attack turkeys. There was not a single shooting man who held a brief for magpies, and he knew that many people who had advocated restrictions against their, destruction in the first place were now arrayed against the ■magpies, because they had found out that ■magpies killed the very birds they wished (to. protect. In one area where there were a number of pigeons magpies were plentiful, and he had seen a pigeon killed by a magpie and had picked it up. He moved that a deputation of the chairman, Mr. K. H. Nimmo, and himself be appointed to wait on the Minister of Internal Affairs, and make a determined effort to have protection removed from magpies. This was seconded by Mr. •C, B. Skipage, and carried.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 5
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MAGPIES AS KILLERS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 5
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