THE DESTROYERS.
GAME FARM IN PERIL. "Notwithstanding tho best endeavours of (die Curator (Mr. Ross), the raising of birds'at' tho Game Farm has , not resulted so satisfactorily as last year, owing :'to* the depredations of stoats, weasels, cats,- and hawks," states a note in the annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. "These vermin are increasing so rapidly as to make it almost impossible to save the, birds from destruction; 05 stoats, 12 weasels, G hawks, and .1 cats were destroyed by tho Curator. The question of continuing tho breeding of birds at Paraparanmu should be carefully considered by the incoming council. One hundred and fifty pheasants and 147 ducks wcro reared during the past season, and thsre are now on the farm 60 pheasants and 70 ducks."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1137, 26 May 1911, Page 4
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128THE DESTROYERS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1137, 26 May 1911, Page 4
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