The Bush And The Birds

NZ Truth, Issue 998, 10 January 1925, Page 7

The Bush And The Birds

"Bird and Bush Lover" writes a letter from which "Truth" makes the following extracts:

I read with some interest srour5 r our remarks upon the need for care by trippers of our native and birds. With the march of settlement, it seems that the birds and the bush must go unless some public-spirited person purchases and endows a sufficiently large area from ...which all trippers would be excluded, and thus ensure the safety of the birds. Isolated bits of bush will •■ perish of themselves. In the meantime it seems that the best way of conserving the bits of bush round about our city would be to grant a warrant to such persons who are sufficiently public-spirited to purchase one, enabling such persons to arrest any oafs lighting fires near the bush or destroying the birds and fish. Now Zealandei's, or the dwellers within our shores,, seem sadly lacking m the knowledge of the value of their own property. If you can prevail upon public-spirited persons to endeavor to get themselves recognised as authorities over the various reserves, with power to arrest vandals and ignorant oafs, who tickle and shoot fish, destroy the native birds, and set fire to the bush either wilf uly or carelessly, you will be doing New Zealand an immense amount of good.