RESTRICTION ON KILLING SEALS
Period Likely To Be Extended By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN. .March 28. The opinion that when the present restriction on the killing of seals on the New Zealand coast and otr lying islands expires in November. 1940. it will be renewed for a further i-eriod of three years was expressed by .Mr. A. E. Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries, today. Mr. Hefford said that the maximum period for which restriction .-i.uld lie applied under the governing Act was three years, or it would probabiy have been made for a long time when it was imiKjsed in November. 1937. The restriction applied to fill kinds of seals. it was understood Hint it imd bad the effect of enabling them to increase during the past two years, though it was naturally difficult to tell because of the inacessibilily of Hie seals’ breeding places and the fact that, as far as was known, very few people visited them.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 157, 29 March 1939, Page 5
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158RESTRICTION ON KILLING SEALS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 157, 29 March 1939, Page 5
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