LAND AND WATER
A white* crane was shot afc Pembroke on Friday lasti (aays fche Cromwell Argas)i, fche bird measuring 4-f b sin in height. The plumage is pure white, without a single coloured feather. Strange to remark, the lost ccaue seen in fcha district waa shot exactly 30 years ago by the father ot the young man who foagg.cd. fchs bud above seferaed to.
At Friday's meeting of tha Acclimatisation Society several mambers pointed autr fche disabilities sportsmen suffered from through the want o£ unifioEixufcy. and fche lack, of notice in the. dates when fche seasons are. opened. In this- connection ife migjb& be-, stated that afc the conference) of. Aaob'matisatioQ Societies- afc Wellington some time ago a bill was drafted, for submission to Parliament providing for uniformity of dates, thronghouJr thar colony,, bufi owing to the lateness of the- session when, the bill was drawn up ifc waa nofc passed. Ifc will ba presented to Parliament: again during the coming session.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 35
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163LAND AND WATER Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 35
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