THE GERMAN OWL..
TO THE EDITOR Slß,—Your correspondent “ Riroriro.” being a city dweller, may be excused his ignorance in not knowing the amount of damage a few native larks can do in a Tiff sp t roilt . ni K pats, but he well knows that .the harrier hawk mentioned by me was the bush and not the common hawk ol the open country. The value of the birds named by Riroriro ”is but of a sentimental nature, and they are probably not known to more than 1 per cent, of your readers, while that of the grey owl. iis economic, and its destruction would, therefore, affeci every man, woman, and cluid in the Dominion. . I therefore feel connaent that no sane body of men would countenance its destruction, and with that i close my correspondence—l am, etc.. Miller’s Flat, November 30. S ° ALES ‘
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21199, 3 December 1930, Page 5
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