SEAL KILLING RESTRICTIONS.
WILL PROBABLY EE RENEWED DUNEDIN, Mr.r. 23 The opinion that when the present restriction on the killing of seals on the New Zealand coast and outlying islands expires in November, 1940, it will be renewed for a further period of three years, was expressed by Mr. A. E. Heff'ord, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, in an interview to-day. Mr. Ilefford said that the maximum period for which restriction could be applied under the governing Act was three years, or it would probably have been made for a long time when it was imposed in November, 1937. The restriction applied to all kinds of seals. It is understood that it had had the effect of enabling them to increase during the past two years, although it was naturally difficult to tell owing to the inaccessibility of seals’ breeding places and to a fact that, as far as was known, very few people visited them.
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Otaki Mail, 31 March 1939, Page 4
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