NATIVE BIRDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 8

NATIVE BIRDS.

HOW TO I'JIOTKCT THEM, (Ily ToloKrßuli.-Miionlni (lurrftsimfidofiU Ohrlstohuroli, July 23. A npnnkor «t tlm retcnl iiii'otiriK of tlm Canterbury Areliimitlwitlon Kimioty stated Unit bo lind lioiuxl of iv cum) In tlm MotbvHi district, where n hoy got n neslful of tlm oggf) of u Now /calami wron, which was, fortunately, plentiful in tliat district, nml ntiitorf tliat ho wiih goiim to soil tboni. 'J'ho ]Umd Jtoard, tlio boy sm'il, vim (iililo willing to i«:co|)t tho vmn aloiip; tvlUi Uioso of any Hninll l>irclf), Tlio iipualior (i/ldcd that tlio soointy Kfiould titlio bojiio notion, Ijccuuho iiutivo binlii iilwuld ho protected, Dr. C. Morton Anderson mild l.lmt tho road boiirib should ho prevented from taking oggii imliwiriiniimtely, hut tlio Imit way to prevent tlio practice wns to cducate tlio children hy liniigiiig in tho wilioolh coloured pictured o( tho different bird,r that it v.'im nought to protect. Tho mutter could ho doiilt with hy tlio oxhondittird of about £2000, and this would ho a piolitnblo expenditure for tlio Government to innke. Anothor speaker said that tho Government need not upend n penny, beennso tlio nchool oomniitieen would buy tho plates if tlioy wero procurable. It wiih Biiggcwtod that tho quickest way was Lo adviiio tho road boards that they woro acting illegally'in buying tlio eggs of iiutivo birds, and woro also going to unnecessary oxpenfto. ■It was dccidod to act on tho suggestion.