DEPREDATIONS OF ROOKS
: GREAT DESTRUCTION OF SECEEI*: - By. Telegraph-Press Association. • : ■'■■■:. ■ ■ ;: '^C '• Napier, May 30. The farmers an-^law&^Bay,are ;coin-plainihg-of: the O*"*"" imong their flocks... Eeeently the looks have acquired the habit. of attacking and rtho.'.lossesjn some, pairs of theidstiictnre becoming serious: • Tho tads not only attack tire hock* in the daytime, but during moonlight nights and one farmer near Earnuon has Wstscores Tightly: : Tho rooks ..attack,the. throats of "the sheep, and-wethers'can be seen in the' -paddocks with open wounds. --•■One was seen with the head completely ' fevered'.with the'exception'of the spinal column;- The birds- also., eat tho ilesn i ight down the middle of the back, ren- ■ faring-'the skin quite useless.- :As looks. are protected, and -the "Vpbsition .13 serious in some parts of the district, representatives, are -being made to the t<ov- •'' crnmciit. on the Bubjecty. T -- .....
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 8
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136DEPREDATIONS OF ROOKS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 8
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