DUCKS ON PONDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 7

DUCKS ON PONDS

“Public Slaughter” Practice Deprecated By Telegraph-Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, December 9. Vigorous condemnation of what he described as “public slaughter” of ducks on ponds where some landholders placed feed for them was made by the president, Mr G. L. Pomfret-Dodd, Christchurch, at the annual conference of the Council of South Island Acclimatisation Societies to-day. Because of the practice one found that ciubs and some leading hotels were able to place grey ducks on menus in and out of season, he said. There was something radically wrong to permit this sort of tiring. When a person asked his friends along for the open slaughter of ducks on a pond much damage was done to the duck population, and until steps were taken to stop the practice all their efforts to rehabilitate the duck population would be in vain. These remarks followed a remit Mr Pomfret-Dodd moved for the North Conterbury Society urging the Minister of Internal Affairs to give effect to the remit carried at the conference of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies’ Association in 1934 that it should be unlawful to place feed to attract any native waterfowl to any water unless such kreas were gazetted sanctuaries or gazetted closed against shooting from year to year. The remit was carried. A recommendation was made that a general licence of £1 be adopted in the South Island to cover both native and imported game. It was agreed to request all South Island Sc .ieties to fix a two months’ season for native and imported game for one year only. It also decided thi.. the shooting season begin on the first Saturday in May and last for two calendar months. It was recommended that the minimum penalty on persons convicted of selling native and imported game e £25. The South Canterbury Anglers’ Club

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