THE KEA NUISANCE.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11555, 16 February 1906, Page 3

THE KEA NUISANCE.

Christcburch, February 15. A meeting oi land owners at Culverden itf-drty passed resolutions urging the Government to increase the bonus of six--1 pence each paid tar tea's heads, and asking the County Councils inlCnsnterbury, affected by the kea nuisance, to co-operate with them in petitioning the Government for assistance in reducing the pest. The keas have come down over the dividing i range on to the mountainous parts of the | j Amuri Country in increasing numbers during the last two years, having apparently moved upwards from the South. I The ranholders place the losses of sheep from this cause at 8 per cent, last year, ' rtrid 15 per cent.- this year. Two hundred keas were 1 shot on one station in eighteen I months, and siSty beaks collected on 1 another in a year.