PARADISE DUCKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20705, 1 May 1929, Page 6

PARADISE DUCKS

to FBt EDtTOSl ®*—Within a day or two. no kind Providence interposing, the legalised murder (for such, and no less, it is) of the beautiful putangitangi, or paradise duck is to be permitted, and many of these harmless and defenceless, to say nothin" of beautiful birds, wi 1 fall victims to the death-dealing gun. Then our illus-. trated papers will be “ embellished ” with photographs showing numbers of the feathered game which fell before , (he prowess of the i noble slaughterer armed with the latest weapon of destruction. Imagination is said to be a faculty not too highly developed in the British race. Pity if that bo so! But it surely does not need the imagination of Shakespeare to see, with the mind’s eye. scores; ’ perhaps hundreds, of these most attractive birds, not only killed outright, but maimed for the rest of their brief existence by the ruthless onslaught of those who. perhaps. till now never tired a gun, and therefore will be all the more likely to wound only those poor creatures and cause them untold agony J—l am, etc.. J. D. B.