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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5

"There's really nothing to bo gained by protecting oiir seals," remarked an ex-sealer to a "Southland News" reporter'at Bluff recently, and added that if seals were. exterminated altogether they would be no loss. The reporter interjected that it would mean tho loss of a New Zealand industry. "Not at all," was the reply. "Tho season has been closed for the past 16 years, and.has thero been any loss? So far as legitimate sealing is concerned, thero has been no industry during all thoso years; but there is no doubt that foreign poachers have been having a free and easy time of it. For six months in tho year tho Aucklands, Bountys, and other islands aro nevor visited, and there is no one to know, no ono to care, and no one to tell. If scalers were to exterminate tho wholea! the animals the industry could not bo worse'off than it is at present. The Government evidently think that by protecting the seals the creatures would become as numerous as .they wero 100 years ago, but the increase, if any, has been very slight. A hundred years ago sealers got as many as 2000 off the Snares, at ono catch. Wo would have to wait a thousand years before they would incrcaso to that extent again." Country Traders! Wβ can help yon. When yon havo goods arriving from abroad, get us to pass the entries. We'll safeguard your interests, and seo to tho Roods being dispatched to quickly. Tho New Zealand Express Co., Ltd.Advt. ' Discussing Irish affaiis, the Houso of Commons sat 21 hours consecutively, August 2R-27, ISBO, nnd 22 hours,.January 25-20, 1881. No real need to bo trouble! with coughs and colds. Keep Dingo Eucalyptus in the house, and take a feu* dropa on sugar, when you suspect a cold, is. bottle everywhere.—A4*t« ]