ACCLIMATISATION WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 18

ACCLIMATISATION WORK

MINISTER'S INTEREST CONFERENCES WITH SOCIETIES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Friday It is the intention of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, to discuss with the Council of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies' Association a number of matters connected with game shooting in the Dominion, and also to confer with the New Zealand Bird Protection Society on questions of interest to that body, both of these organisations having received advice to that effect from the Minister. , "They are very active bodies, both doing splendid work in their particular spheres, and I am anxious to meet them," remarked! Mr. Parry when questioned concerning the purport of the conferences. " I had not been long in office as Minister of Internal Affairs before a request was received from these organisations for me to meet their executive representatives to discuss various questions about game and the protection of birds, questions which come very closely within the province of the Department of Internal Affairs. As a game hunter myself I am interested in the work of the acclimatisation societies and the Bird Protection Society, but 1 must confess to being surprised on taking up office to find that the correspondence of that section of the functions of the Department of Internal Affairs was s6 large and the problems to solve so many and varied."