PUKEKO PLENTIFUL

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1930, Page 11

PUKEKO PLENTIFUL

BECOMING A NUISANCE. Two instances of pukeho becoming a nuisance in Canterbury came before a meeting of the Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last week, when it was stated that, in spite of the recommendation of the society to have a short open season for te birds this year, a close one had been declared by the Government-. Tho Department of Internal Affairs wrote authorising the ranger to take or kill pukeho found on one property because they were becoming a nuisance. . “I think, this bears out the justness of our recommendation to have a short open season,” said the president, Mr. C. ll.' Lawrence; “However, the Government thought otherwise. It would have been much ' better than having people apply to the Government for permission to destroy birds because they are becoming a nuisance.” Mr. D. C. Macfarlane applied for permission to shoot pukeho on his property at Waiau. They had not been shot for some years, he said, and were becoming a nuisance, and beginning to destroy the stacks. Air. W, Deans said i&e pukeho were there in thousands. Mr. S. F. Barnett: Would it be possible to scare instead of scooting them? Mr. Deanss No, I don’t think so. There is no danger of their being shot out. Tho application was referiri to the Rangers’ Committee.