HEDGEHOG PESTS
Destruction of Game 1 in N.Z. NAPIER DISCUSSION "The biggest curse we've got." That was the criticism levelled at hedgehogs by members of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society in Napier last night. The society viewed with alarm the ravages on game by tlie rapidly-increasing number of the animals. * The presidenfj, Mr J. H. Edmundson, pointed out that- an adea of the huge numbers of hedgehogs in the county could be gained from the hundreds that could be seen dead on almost any road in the Dominion,*' They were more plentiful in the Wairarapa than in Hawke's Bay. Evidence, of the huge number of duck, pheasant, and hen eggs destroyed annnally by hedgehogs was given by other members. Dogs, it .was saidr ldlled numbers of them each day dn thecountry districts, but made no appreeiable difference to their numbers. The suggestion that the society should do (something about the matter evoked mild amusement. "To put a bquntv on hedgehogs you would have to have the Treasury behind you," was the comment of one member.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 12
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175HEDGEHOG PESTS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 12
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