DESTRUCTIVE KEAS
(Per Press Association.) Chriatohnroh, last night.
I A meeting of land owners at Gulverden to-day passed resolutions urging Govern* ment to inorea-e the bonne of 6d each paid for kea’s heads, and asking the county oouncils in Canterbury affected by the kep nuisanoe to 00-operato with them . in petitioning Government for assistance in reducing the peat. Keas have ebma down over the Dividing Range into mountainous parts of Amuri oounty in inoroasing numbers during the last two years, having ap; parently moved upwards from the South. Runholders place the losses of Bheep from cause at 8 per oent laafryear, aoid, IS oent this year. Two; hundred keas were shot on one station in 18 moaths.aod 60 beaks were collected on another in a year- ' . . - .■ \ .■ ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1675, 16 February 1906, Page 2
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