UNRESTRICTED SHOOTING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 3

UNRESTRICTED SHOOTING

SHAGS AT WAIKAREMOANA VIOLATION OF SANCTUARIES A protest has been made by the Forest and Bird Protection Society to the Department of. Internal Affairs ,with reference to the issuing of a permit to kill black shags at YVaikaremoana. "This lake with its surroundings has been declared a sanctuary for native plant and bird life," said Captain E. V. Sanderson. "The administration of the area is entrusted, to the Department of Tourist and Publicity, but the Department of Internal Affairs claims control of the Ash and bird life. This duality is certainly a very comical system of control, and is un likely to tend towards efficiency when it is considered how all wild life is inter-allied. Those who wish to kill the black shag contend that this bird should be destroyed as it is considered to be a link in the life history of the nematode worm found in trout. Thus the responsible department is sanctioning war on a native bird in a sanctuary set apart for the preservation of native birds —and the Department is doing this on the mere supposition that exotic fish might be encouraged. The ieport re the nematode worm in trout is not available to the public and therefore cannot be commented upon.'"