“Stark Lunacy To Protect Magpies”
A forecast that within 50 years - there would be only two species of 'birds, sparrows and magpies, was -made by Cr N- M. Glazebrook at a -meeting of the Hawke's Bay County "Council- . t , He said magpies were one of the biggest menaces in the Dominion -today. He knew an area at the back / -of Takapau of several square miles -where the only bird one heard was -the magpie. Cr H. E. Cross said it was stark ' lunacy to protect magpies. There • was a price on the beaks of hawks, • which were valuable to rabbit control. He considered that hawks -.should be on the protected list and magpies, at present on it, should be -put off.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 5 January 1949, Page 5
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121“Stark Lunacy To Protect Magpies” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 5 January 1949, Page 5
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