Wild Life Protection.
PROFESSOR SPEIGHT'S APPEAL. Appealing for mippoit of the Goveriiiue t ini l its efforts "or the comt'o! of pi o' eel ;o i of wild life in the Dominion, Pio"osi,-ior Speight of Christchurch, in hi; pre-die Till address at live Royal Society Congress held in Dunedin dining the week, stated that irreparable harm had been done in the past by the importation, usually in the name of sport, of animals which had heroine a. me rare in surroundings in which natural biological ■controls-, did not exist. This had serious agricultu; al and conmei'cial implications, apart from the di-i-iipa-tion of our natural heritage. He instanced the damage to alpine vegetation by the chamois- and tlliar.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4211, 4 June 1935, Page 3
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