GREY DUCK SCARCITY
CLOSE SEASON ASKED FOR. GOVERNMENT APPROACHED. pheasants to be liberated. Much concern was expressed at a recent meeting of the council of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society at the all-to-evident decrease in native grey duck, which, it was considered, linn'll' t 0 b 0 common throughout the Members considered that the only way to preserve the birds would be t“ obs er v e a close season periodically tha \ end in view the society decided to make representations to the Government to consider the question ot a close season for the whole of the North Island next year. It was pointed out that a close season in isolated distncts would be of no value The council also decided to purchase 100 pheasants to be liberated in its district immediately on the close of the present shooting season, which liblrat° Il t JUly 3 l' The birds wUI b 0 effort wPI k varl , ous Properties and an effort will bo made to keep a check of hem and to sec that they are not interferred with.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 164, 14 July 1933, Page 4
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178GREY DUCK SCARCITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 164, 14 July 1933, Page 4
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