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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 6

Mr. James Dobson, curator of tho game farm, Aratapu, Auckland, writing to the Wellington Acclimatisation Socity, strongly advised tho society not to so forward with the proposal to introduce tho Australian stubblo quail. lb wouldbe a pity, said 1 Mr. Dobson. if the quail 'was oven allowed into Now Zealand. Ho had formed a policy for the sound management of all acclimatisation societies in Now Zealand, all of which were working under an unsound policy. One plank in his policy was to thoroughly establish the partridge in the Wellington district. There was first-class partridge cover—equal to tho best at Homo—in tho district", which could carry 272,135 grey partridges and. over 200,000 French partridges, making a total of 472,135. Four-fifths of these could bo shot annually, and tho remainder left for vStock purposes. He added that it would bo unwise to introduce a very inferior bird to eat the food of tho partridge and constitute a nuisance to sporting dogs, while tho sporting shooting was nothing as compared with tho partridge. The secretary was 'instructed to write to Mr. Dobson for information. i