TEACHER'S SUCCESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 120, 7 February 1940, Page 6

TEACHER'S SUCCESS

CONVERSION OF VANDALS A school teacher resident in Taranaki has given the Forest and Bird Protection Society a very pleasant report of his success in the conversion of young vandals into enthusiastic bird-prolectors. "By chance, one day," the teacher says, "I saw some of my boys swinging nestling birds by the head until they were decapitated. When I question them about this cruelty they replied that their father had told them that birds Ave re no good. I took twelve of the worst offenders and made them members of the Forest and Bird Protection Society so that they would receive the society's magazine. The boys proved to be keen, intelligent readers. The result now is that those twelve lads are the main force in the protection of birds in the district. They are a very vigilant and a very active littl'c band." The president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society (Captain E. V. Sanderson) expresses a hope that many other schools will follow the example of the Taranaki school and send along the names and subscriptions of one or more pupils. The society will then do its full sharp: by issuing to each pupil quarterly for one year their magazine "Forest and Bird" which is printed at just double the cost of Ihe subscription. The North Auckland Forest Society has already given an excellent lead by pajMng the subscriptions of .420 school children of the district as members of the Forest and Bird Protection Society (Box 631, Wellington).