CYCLING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 8

CYCLING

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright 1 (Received 30th March, 10.40 a.tji.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Victorian professional cyclists E. : Gibaud and H. Veitch leave Sydney on ; Friday for New Zealand to compete at the Otorohanga sports.

Rare Birds and Plants In a plea for the preservation of rare birds and plants. Captain E V. Sanderson. president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, remarks that publicity proves fatal to the hopes of royal albatrosses which tried to nest on a lonely spot of the coast near Dunedin. The finders of the nest decided to keep „ their knowledge to themselves, but unJ fortunately they took a friend into their confidence —and soon their discovery found its way into print. It 2 was good news for vandals, who went 2 to some trouble to destroy the nest by pelting pieces of rock, “That kind of vandal J s not the only enemy of rare j birds ” be said. "Certain unscrupulous j collectors are ever alert for clues which j will help them to obtain illegal posses- * sion of rare specimens, and the an--2 nouncement of the presence of a rare y plant or bird is invariably followed gy a hunt for the rarity New Zealanders who happen to see such birds or their nests are exhorted to refrain from disclosing the locality '*