WILD LIFE CONTROL
PROBLEMS TO BE STUDIED REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL PA WELLINGTON, May 11. - The setting up of a National Wild uLife Council to consider the problems of wild life control and preservation • and the development of the natural resources of New Zealand: apd its dependencies, as advocated by the Wild : Life Committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand, was approved by the ; council of the society to-day. The Wild Life Council would under , the proposal include representatives of each of the departments' of Agriculture, Forestry, Public Works (soil ' conservation and rivers control), "Marine, Tourist," Internal Affairs, Scientific and Industrial Research, ac- . climatisation societies, the Royal Society, the University of New Zea--r land, and the chief executive officer of the council of the Royal Society. 2 it was stressed that had such a body '< been in existence when the European > wasp first made its appearance the U country would not now, four or five years after the intrusion, be tackling the problem and that, similarly, the • white butterfly ' problem would have been tackled.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27078, 12 May 1949, Page 6
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173WILD LIFE CONTROL Otago Daily Times, Issue 27078, 12 May 1949, Page 6
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