BIRD PRESERVATION
CONFERENCE AT GENEVA. A SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS. (United Press Association.! (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. May 24. (Received May 25, at 5.5 p.m.) The Genova correspondent of The Times says that an international bird preservation conference was successfully concluded. It protested against the killing of birds solely for millinery purposes, and it resolved to recommend complete cessation of bird hunting during the mating and rearing periods. Other resolutions deprecated the use of repeating shotguns, the shooting of wildfowl from motor boats-and commerce in wild birds’ eggshells. The conference also recommended an international convention compelling the cessation of all shooting, trapping, and other destruction for sale, or exposure for sale, in the countries of the south.} i hemisphere from August 1 until tna autumn shooting season. —Australian Press Association. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20418, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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129BIRD PRESERVATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 20418, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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