INTRODUCING GROUSE.
ATTEMPT BY MR. LOWRY.
An attempt to introduce grouse in the Tongariro National Park will be made in a few weeks' timo. Mr. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, who returned by the Niagara yesterday, has donated seven brace of birds from Cumberland, which are due to arrive in Wellington about the end of this month. The utmost ce,re has befen taken by the donor to see that everything possible is done which could add "to the chances of the birds surviving the long sea journey. They r.re roroing out nnder the care of a special attendant, who will receive a premium for e\ery bird which reaches New Zealand alive. They are being fed on frozen heather and other specially prepared bird food. It is fifty years since the first attempt v. as mado to introduce grouse irito New Zealand, but this, end all subsequent attempts failed, no birds ever having reached here alive. If the grouse survive, they will be forwarded on arrival to the honorary warden of the park, Mr. John Cullen, to whom Mrs. Lowry, while in England, also sent & quantity of French heather seed for sowing at Tongariro.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 9
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194INTRODUCING GROUSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 9
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