NATIVE GAME BIRDS
DEPREDATIONS BY HAWKS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 30. Hawks in :ne Rotorua district -ave in recent years greatly increased in number and their depredations among native game birds are very apparent. At the instance of the Minister of Internal Affairs, instructions have been given to officers of the Department ranging the Rotorua Acclimatisation District to declare war on hawks and last month 63 were shot. If the rangers of all Acclimatisation Societies, remarked Mr Parry to-day, were to make an attack on nawks the pest would soon be less .serious, than it is to-day and our birds would benefit.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20768, 1 July 1937, Page 8
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103NATIVE GAME BIRDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20768, 1 July 1937, Page 8
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