NATIVE BIRDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13

NATIVE BIRDS

WANTON DESTRUCTION

VANDATiS : IN SANCTUARIES

"Parliament passed a law to protect native and game birds, and the police, assisted by the Department of Internal i Affairs, and the acclimatisation' societies, will see that that Law is fully administered;'' stated the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, •in Wellington on Thursday. "The person who kills game and other birds in the waters"of public reserves, which are. sanctuaries, merits the utmost penalty the. law provides." Mr. Parry was referring to several complaints that had reached him flately of birds—wild duck and pukeko mostly —which had been killed in perSanent patches of water in certain of ie ! boroughs and on little rivers that frail through them, where they had itak'en up their abode. [ "A "person who shoots or takes a Pbiira from any of these'little streams ■of a town, where people, particularly itho children, like to see water-birds with their young, is no .sport or lover *of nature,'' the Minister said. "It is Jjecaus? of the depredations of persons of that type, lacking" in all public ppirit, and* feeling, that laws have to be passed to punish them. ! "Quite apart from breaking the law, it is inconceivable that a person should ho so wanting in sportsmanship, civic Kride, and thought as to rob the people f a district of its birds."