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LIVE PIGEON SHOOTS, Tllo Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Aniina.s has protested to the Government, through the Minister of Internal Affairs, against the shooting of live pigeons at gun club trials'. Attention is drawn to an advertisement recently seeking a thousand ■pigeons, which, the society says, will all be. tame. Such a' cruel sport should not be permitted to con-iTmiLv--Press Association. I!IMG DREDGE RETURN. A Hokitika Association message states that the Rimti dredge return [o June 21 was 219.b0s for 132 hours f. 53.637 yards excavated). WELLINGTON STATION YARD. The General -Manager of Railways, in a statement to-day, said that there was no delect in the layout of the Wellington station yard, which nas not to be altered, nor was llm delay attributable to a defect in the locomotive which caused tlie initial, trouble yesterday. The congestion was due entirely to the fact that in connection with the change over they wore able to pro-' ride in the time at their disposal only one road between the locomotive depot and the station.-* Wiling ton Press Association
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Evening Star, Issue 22681, 22 June 1937, Page 14
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