RESTRICTION ON SEAL KILLING
RENEWAL CONSIDERED LIKELY (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 29. The opinion that when the present restriction on the killing of seals on the New Zealand coast and the outlying islands expires in November 1940, it will be renewed for a further period of •three years, was expressed by Mr A. E. Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries, in an interview. Mi- Hefford said that the maximum period for which any 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 and it is understood that it has had the effect of enabling them to increase during the past two years, although it was naturally difficult to tell because of the inaccessibility of the seals’ breeding places and the fact that as far as was known very few persons visited them.
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Southland Times, Issue 23780, 30 March 1939, Page 5
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160RESTRICTION ON SEAL KILLING Southland Times, Issue 23780, 30 March 1939, Page 5
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