KILLING OF SEALS
RESTRICTION PERIOD
EXTENSION LIKELY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, March 28
The opinion that when the present restriction on the killing of seals on the New Zealand coast and outlying islands expires in November, 1940, it will be renewed for a further period of three years was expressed by Mr. A. E. Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries, today.
Mr. Hefford said that the maximum period for which restriction could be applied under the governing Act was three years, or it would probably have been made for a long time when it was imposed in November, 1937. The restriction applied to all kinds of seals.
It was understood that it had had the effect of enabling them to increase during the past two years, though it was naturally difficult to tell because of the inaccessibility of the seals' breeding places and the fact that, as far as was known, very few people visited them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 7
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155KILLING OF SEALS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 7
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