The Small Bird Nuisance.
-•■■- ■■■■»■ r-.^T At the meeting of the Tamahere '(Waikato)- Farmers' Club held on the 4th inst., the small bird nuisance was fliHy d\s,6ussed, , and the followinjj resolution unanimously passed*:—' ' c That the inspector ba instructed to write to the chairmajg^xf the respective county councils and/road boards, stating thats strong feeling of repugnance exists against the iritention of wholesale poisoning jOf small birds throughout the dfolricj;, anJ'tTiat' the club has been requested totuse its inflaence to prevent same by recommending 1 the employment of liird-catchers by contract, to net tfie-birdsusid-destroy nests during the breeding season, which .course, it is believed, would ' prove' equal ty efiicatious and^l^ss r clangerou3 than poisoning, and to this effect the plub had agreed to de\^>te fi. portion of its funds as the nucleus of a small bird* fund, provided tlje\varioi|S bounty coiiucils and road boards >yill co-operate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 119, 15 April 1884, Page 2
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144The Small Bird Nuisance. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 119, 15 April 1884, Page 2
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