PROTECTION OF WILD LIFE
APPEAL FOR SUPPORT. IMPORTED ANIMAL MENACE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 28. Appealing for the support of the Government ill its efforts for the control and protection of wild life in the Dominion, Professor R. Speight in his presidential address to the Rpyal Society stated that irreparable harm had been done in the past- bv the importation, usually in the name of sport, of animals which had become a menace in surroundings in which their natural, biological controls did not exist. This had serious agricultural and commercial implications, apart from the dissipation of the natural heritage. He instanced the damage to alpine vegetation by chamois and tliar.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 29 May 1935, Page 8
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