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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 73

. -e Colonial Secretary, ; in reply on Wednesday to Air Taylor—asking that steps should he taken this session to provent the wanton destruction •of native birds in the hush adjacent to the Wanganui river by passengers and others on the steamers plying on that river, who, it is alleged, •shoot indiscriminately at anything in the shape of a. bird said steps had already been taken in i hat direction, and the steamship proprietors on the river had undertaken to use thou* best en de a v ours to protect- bird-life. When the proposed scenic areas on the banks of tine river, recommended by the Scenery Fi esorvaiion ( Annum issiouers, were hi ought under tho .Scenery Presevvai ion Act it would be possible to effectively protect the native fauna, as had been done elsewhere.