WILD DUCK SCARCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1937, Page 2

WILD DUCK SCARCE

MINISTER’S APPEAL.

[per press association.]

WELLINGTON, December 10.

Th© opinion that the pot-hunting motorist would have! to be abolished, and! in all probability, a close season for wild duck observed in the near future, was expressed by. the: 'Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parriy), speaking at the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’'S'game farm at Parap'araumu. Mr .Parry alsjo mentioned the need of careful conservation of imported and indigenous game. <

“I am going’’ to. appeal to all sportsmen, to do' everything, they possibly can to put out: the pot-hunter, who, probably, even! without a licence, knocks over a bird feeding, at the roadside, and puts it into his car. I can’t speak too strongly against such people,” said the Minister.

' He believed that there wiould have to be a close season, sooner or later, for wild duck. He had' often l “gone for a walk” and returned emptyhanded. “The grey duck isi going,” he added. “It is a wonderful bird to have held its own for so long.” Grey 'duck Avas being given no respite, and the pity.' of it was that it was the young birds, the laying bonds, that Were being killed out. “I know.’ that the societies won’t agree with me, but I shall go on putting it forward, again 'and again, because I believe it to be for the good of New I Zealand shooting men.” While inspecting the farm, Mr Parry saw 1000 of this season’s pheasant chicks bding reared and 1000 eggs either in process of or ready for incubation.