PROTECTION AND NATIVE BIRDS
Sir, —Is it not time that something was done to protect our 'native birds? There are about 100 ducks in the Queenstown \ Bay, which contains an area of about half a mile square. Surely this is no place for speed launches to be running and destroying our young birds that are not able to fly for protection. What is being done by our local bodies and the bird protection societies to protest against this wanton destruction of these birds? Local residents have been feeding and trying to protect these birds, only to know that ; they are to be destroyed. Large numbers have been destroyed in the past, and it is full time that some steps were taken to stop the destruction of these launches.— - I am, etc., Thomas E. Haines. Queenstown, Jan. 2.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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