NEW DEPARTMENT
MINISTER'S SUGGESTION CONSERVING WILD LH E ( Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 19. I The Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, staled that he was iconfident if fresh and salt water lishI eries and other wild life and game I were to be maintained New Zealand ' must have a reconstruction system. The conservation and protection ■problem must be tackled under a national policy with one guiding author|ity. To place dependence on the future i maintenance of fishing and game 'shooting on licence fees was courting ! disaster. I He suggested the establishment of a 'department with a trained commisIsioner possessing scientific and pracitical knowledge of conservation work. (Such a department could make use of | biological research institutions and {voluntary advisory assistants, carrying on all phases of wild life control and fresh and salt water fisheries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 7
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