AN EVERGREEN PROBLEM.
SMALfc BIRD&fAjJfD INSECTS. "At a meeting of .the'Ashburton . County j Council,- the chairman. (Mr. John Latnbie)-Teported-.;that =£1618 .batl been- expended 1 tluriixg- the past year -in' the- 'purchase of, 'small birds' eggs .and heads (states , our ■ Chnstchurch correspondent), which, per■hips, represented the largest outlay towards the. destruction of small birds in .the histbry of the council. V Mr Friedlander expressed the opinion ; 'that the advent of the caterpillars was ! [duo to the whqiesalo destruction of. small Thirds by trapping, poisoning, and collectpig eggs. He suggested, and subsequently moved, that a committee should be' ap- ! pointed to go carefully into the matter, , ; and draw up a report bearing on the s small birds question,*, and, if it 'was ; '.deemed.'., necessary, confer with the : neighbouring couiity councils. I i The motion was carried, though other' " .tmembers-thought-that: the alarming in-- , j crease of-the insect pest tfas directly due | ,to dry season, and not to 1 'the reduction in the number of small i 'birds. ..... :■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 8
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164AN EVERGREEN PROBLEM. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 8
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