THE BLACK SHAG
PRICE OX ITS HEAD (By Telegraph—Special to "The Mail") CHRISTCHUHOH, This Day. Up to the present there has been no response to the North Canterliury Acclimatisation Society's offer to pay Is for each head of black shag accused of taking trout. The black shag is almost a cosmopolitan bird and very plentiful in New Zealand as well as in many other countries. It is the only ni3nil). J .r of the shag family outlawed l>y 'lie Society. As evidence against it J!r Hcvvey, the Society's secretary, has in his olliee, preserved in spirits, twenty undigested small trout and two larger ones partly digested, taken from the gullet of "a black shag destroyed at Lake Ellesmere in June last. Mr Hervey states that all other societies in New Zealand that, have placed a price on the black «shag's head find that as a result trout have improved in their districts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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152THE BLACK SHAG Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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