FEROCIOUS MAGPIES
ATTACK SMALL' BOY. FEILDING, November 8. The ferocity of magpies in the 'lv'mbolton district was illustrated by the president, Mr F. H. Stockwell, at a meeting of the Feilding Acclimatisation (Society. Mr Stockwell said that recently a small tx>y had been badly pecked about the face iby thes e fird s as he was on bis way to school. The boy’s mother had been obliged to seek assistance and beat off the birds with a stick. There was no exaggeration about the report, as he had seen the boy concerned. Mr Stockwell said the society’s rangers had no authority to destroy magpies, but at the conference of acclimatisation societies it was stated that anybody seeing a bird attacking a person could destroy it, though in doing so he would be liable to prosecution. Authority had been obtained for the destruction of tile birds causing the trouble in the Kim tolton district, but no action had been aken, as some of the settlers in the distiict were opposed to the shoootjng of the birds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 6
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175FEROCIOUS MAGPIES Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 6
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