PROTECTION OF GAME.
SPORTSMEN OPPOSE PROPOSAL. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Balclutlia sportsmen discussing Sir Thomas Mackenzie’s Game Protection Bill, resolved' to protest against absolute protection' of paradise ducks and pukeko, and to request the Otago Acclimatisation Society to take the matter up and use every endeavour to prevent the proposed Bill being passed, the birds being in large numbers in various parts of South Canterbury, Otago and Southland, and not in danger of being exterminated. They are very destructive to crops. Runholders suffer very considerably from their depredations.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1371, 24 March 1923, Page 5
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