PROTECTION OF BIRDS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. SLAUGHTER FOR MILLINERY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May . 24. The. Times’ Geneva correspondent 'says the International Bird Preservation Conference was successfully concluded. It protested against the killing of birds solcily for their millinery value, and passed a resolution recommending the complete cessation of bird hunting during the mating and rearing periods, and the use of repeating shotguns. The 'shooting of wild fowl from motor boats was strongly disapproved of, as was commerce in wild birds’ eggshells—Times Cables.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 25 May 1928, Page 6
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