SMALL BIRDS.
PUR PBBBB ASSOCIATION.
, INVERCAKGILL, June 11. Tbe delegates from local bodies met again to-day, relative to the small birds nufeance, and passed a motion to leave tbe work of detraction to the Stock Department. The representatives of the borough did. not fall in wiih this, a 9a 9 the Act forbids 'he laying cf poison»wit.hin municipalitifs, therefore they end the residents were powerless to aid in diminishing the pest. The meeting adjourned until, a reply wa- received f.om the Deportment. The intention v thHt the Department should do the work and bill the district for the cost, and that a rate thall be levied, as for charitable aid. to civer it. The Act. p ocides that if local bed'es do nt 'akt, acion he Government shall, and cbarg; ib in with «he cost, so thatthe proposal i« equivalent to ihe local bodies- saying they w.ll not destroy the bird*.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7743, 12 June 1903, Page 3
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151SMALL BIRDS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7743, 12 June 1903, Page 3
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