THE KEA AND SHEEP.
. ; :v. :.- 'IS HE. AN ASSASSIN? v ;.': : ' \. ; . Christchuroh,'.'September 18. "Some time ago'.a correspondent asserted .in . the "Herald" that the. charge of ."sheepkilling brought against tliokea had never been proved. 'Mr. ;Dpnald Macßae, of Ehoborough Downs,; Mackcnae Country,' .h'as ; how written tllat,"'in 'the winter ol 1008, when he had his sheep down on the low .country,'many.of them wero killed-by keas.. He and soveral of his men were ont both day and night-wacching'for them, and, they shot Eeveral"keas,.-.l.ut eiill the .killing .went on,Just,'the same.'.; At latt'he mustered into a paddock,' and erected a yard with,..wire;ri3tting. On: the block .whero he had! mustered^ , ..ho had .had-three.- rams killed'the.night previous,,,and,\in this yard, he, put' about■ thirty,sheep. f.He.lay alongside the yard,;and, at 7 p.m., α-kca , 'osune down on the/back of a ram in , the yard,-and, whilst it was;on. tho" sheep's, back ,in tW act "of.killing ■Hie sheip,'■he'shot'it..".'"; ! .!■"'■;. ■ ;■•' ' . Mr.'R. Marriner, curator of.'jthe , 'Wanganui Museum has written offeririg r if'the innoceucfe of .thy kea ia proved,, to give .JC5 r to.'the Timaru Hospital. , .-■•'■,. ~' ,'■': i .-' '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 10
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170THE KEA AND SHEEP. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 10
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