Just Skylarking! I armors in the Shannon district and particularly onion growers arc suffering seriously from the depredations of birds, which arc pulling up thousands! of plants, not apparently with the, object of obtaining food, as the- plants arc quite undamaged, but out of pure 'mischief. It is thought that the culprits are mainly skylarks-and yellow-hammers. One farmer who sowed six acres of barley ha s had to resow this area.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 321, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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71Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 321, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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