OIL FROM SHIPS
EFFECT ON BIRD LIFE
The Marine Department has written to the Whangarei Harbour Board for information bearing on the question of sea-water pollution by oil discharged by ships, states the "New Zealand Herald."
The secretary to the board, Mr. W. M. Fraser, said it was vital to the protection of native and sea bircls that the sea water should not be polluted by oil. "It is not gentrally known," he said, "that sea birds are necessary for our sea fish. Large droves of sea birds hover over areas where fish are and these fish come to the surface and the birds take the sea vermin off the fish, thereby keeping them healthy. Large numbers of birds are killed as a result of sea-water pollution by' oil discharged by ships. Apart from the cruelty in killing birds it is necessary that the birds be preserved in the interests of our large fish." He added that there was no pollution from oil in the Whangarei Harbour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 6
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167OIL FROM SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 6
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