Sportsmen To Watch For Banded Ducks

Chronicle (Levin), 27 April 1948, Page 5

Sportsmen To Watch For Banded Ducks

WKr.LIX(iT()X, April 26. Thc Minister of Internal Ai'l'uirs, AI : Parrv, today commeated on the woi1': being done by an officor of the wild litv brancli of the Department of Interna ATi'airs in earrying out waterl'owl in vestigatious in the Manawatu district Last year mallard and grey ducks we" banded and through the cooperation o: shooters, a large proportion of the blind were retrieved tiom birds shot. Hue, valualde ini'ormation was obtained fron tiiis banding that work this year lui been done on an increased scale, soiit 700 grey and nmllard ducks having lice; banded and liberated. As it wust'ouiu last year that some birds travelleu many miles to districts well remove' f'roni the Manawatu area, Mr. Parry i anxious that sportsmon throughout Nev Zealand should cooperate to the maxi innin degree by - returning any sucb aluminium bands whieh they may find to the wild lit'e braneh of the Depart ment of Internal AlTairs, Wellington giving the date and plaee where t!c Jiand was retrieved. Mullard ducks and some of tlu phcasants which have been liberate from the Government ganie farm, a Ngongotaha, "Rotorua, have also liee;: banded in a sirnilar manner and the eo •ilieration of sportsmen, particularly ii> the Rotorua district, is aLo sought.