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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 6

A Bush Dairy Factories’ Association has been formed, with headquarters at Pahiatua. The directors have appointed Mr. G. Godfrey Taylor secretary. A Wairoa farmer showed to a "Poverty Bay Herald" correspondent a patch of luxuriant blackbcriy treated with a spray mixture from Australia, which is stated to have killed even the prickly pear. The blackberry plants showed a decided wilting a few hours after the application of the spray. An inspection of the roots will be made later. There is stiong opposition in the Farmers* Union against the formation oi a blackberry board, as outlined by Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P., on Lis recent visit, when the Hun. O. J. Hawkeu inspected the blackberry patch at Te Uhi. It is not altogether due to an objection to another rate, but. to a dislike on the part of those who keep their land clear to have to pay for "the other fellow’s neglect." The need for more game bird sanctuaries in the Dominion is stressed in a bulletin lately issued by the New Zealand Native Bird Protection .Society. "Sanctuaries, as they are called in England, or in America and Canada bird refuges, are the foundation of bird protection, game or otherwise. Insufficient attention is paid in New Zealand to the establishment of game bird sanctuaries, which should be inviolate," says the bulletin. "Finding national laws insufficient to protect migratory birds, including ducks and the like, treaties have been signed between Groat Britain. America and Canada, with a view of international co-operation in protecting migratory birds. An Act is now before the American Congress, supported by many bird protection societies and game commissions, to proVido adequate funds for purchasing a chain of sanctuaries, including lakes swamps, etc., along the routes of certain birds. The modern gun is so deadly that it is found even game birds, with all their cunning, Iwicome exterminated unless efficient sane- I tuaries are provided." |