A number of experts admitted on Wednesday night (says the Lyttelton Times) that they could not distinguish the sexes of young Canadian geese. The Otago Acclimatisation Society appealed *o the Canterbury Society to help to classify half a dozen of its young birds. It was decided to inform the Otago Society tlmt no help could he offered. Mr Edgar Stead remarked that the only way to distinguish them was immediately after hatching in the nest, when the ganders could bo distinguished by their greater size. The Ekotahiina County Council is in a hanpy financial position, the county fund being £1284 19s Id in credit.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 12
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