ALBATROSSES EATEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 126, 21 February 1940, Page 2

ALBATROSSES EATEN

ILLEGAL FEEDS IN CHATHAMS When the Hon. W. Iv Parry, Min- . ister of Internal Affairs, stated recently that he would make an in-, vestigation into the killing of j*oung - albatrosses on the Chatham Islands, he remarked that "certain species were, protected." The full fact is that nine species of that majestic ~ bird are protected under the provisions of the Animals .Protection ,-r" a.nd Game Act. lf)21-22. Tiie list comprises the Royal Albatrosses, the Wandering Albatrosses, the f Sooty Albatrosses, and the following I mollyhawks: The Black-browed, the .-] Yellow-nosed, the Bounty Island, t Snares Island, and the Chatham Island. It is well known in certain circles that many young albatrosses during '"A ' many years have been killed ' food in the Chathams. "It is not a case of need."' states one complainant. "The persons who do the killj i,ng have plenty of other food—all j kinds of lish. beef, -mutton, poultry land so on —but they regard the young albatross as a delicacy, when j'L is cooked hi a special way, ami so they go on the law, year after year. It *Wll be very easy—or should be very easy —for the Minister to get plenty of i evidence in srpport of that state- y I inent."