CONTROL OF WILD LIFE.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, This Dav. Appealing for the support of 'the Government in its efforts for the control and protection of wild life in the Dominion, Mr R. Speight, in his presidential address to the Royal Society, stated that irreparable harm had been done in the past by the importation, usually in the name of sport, of animals which had become a menace in surroundings in which natural biological controls did not exist. That had had serious agricultural and commercial implications, apart from the dissipation of their national heritage. He instanced the damage done to alpine vegetation by chamois and thar.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20625, 28 May 1935, Page 10
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