FIRE AT GAME FARM
PHEASANT CHICKS DESTROYED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day,
Between 500 and 600 pheasant chicks, ranging from a month to two months' old, were lost in a fire which completely destroyed the brooder shed of J. Dobson's poultry farm on the main Tekowhai Koad, seven miles from Ham- : ilton. Not one chick escaped, and their loss alone is estimated at over £300. Two large brooders in a shed in which the birds were housed were also totally destroyed. Mr, Dobson, who is the Auckland Acclimatisation Society's ranger in the Waikato district, breeds pheasants for the society, which then liberates the chicks in various parts of the province. The birds destroyed were to have been liberated at the-end of February, and as the laying season for pheasants is now over they will be difficult to replace, and it is likely that a shortage of these birds will result.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 11
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151FIRE AT GAME FARM Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 11
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