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\ SERIOUS PEST IN CANTERBURY. (United Press Association) , OfiKiaTCHUK/OH, This Day._ 'A conference of station holders, m high country wa® held to-day to discuss the fe'epa necessary *o 'destroy teas. Speakers agreed that the ravages of the bird* were becoming increasingly sen ©us. Instances were given where sheep were killed as low as 7VU feet above sea Ivel, and later it was feared the birds might* take possession of the whole country. , The meeting resolved to ask the Government to declare keas noxious birds and give a grant of five shillings a head for killing them; also that i" thould be compulsory for county coundls to employ men to kill the birds.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 74, 28 March 1919, Page 6
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113THE KEA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 74, 28 March 1919, Page 6
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