LAKE ELLESMERE DUCKS
SURPRISE FOR MINISTER (0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday '"There are literally hundreds of thousands of ducks on the weed bank of Lake Ellesmere. They rise in spirals, like clouds of black smoke, from places in this wonderful sanctuary," said Mr. T. E. Fisher, a member of a deputation from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society which waited on the Minister for Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E Parry. Mr. Parry was keenly interested in the statement. "I would like to see the hundreds of thousands," he said. "I have travelled a good deal about New Zealand in the last six years, and have been looking for ducks in any great numbers. The best I have seen recently was 150, in the North Island." The Minister was asked to visit the lake before the next season and see the ducks for himself. He promised to endeavour to do so.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24135, 29 November 1941, Page 10
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