POACHING AND VANDALISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 5

POACHING AND VANDALISM.

MENACE TO WILD LIFE. In. moving the adoption of the annual report at the annual meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, held at Wellington, the chairman (Captain E. V. Sanderson) stated: “l should like, to say that it has been the policy of your executive during the past year and previous years to spend all the limited income in those ways which they think will most effectually load to public interest in, and sympathy with, the preservation of New Zealand’s forest and bird life. I regret to have to say that your executive’s efforts are being constantly hamiiered by the necessity for endeavouring to arrest the many acts of poaching and vandalism which are ever before us, and also, I might add, many actions on the part of the others who appear to have little idea of the ecological and biological aspects of nature. “For the benefit of the community in general, the sportsmen and the na-ture-lover, the present system of permitting the uninformed to tamper with wild life matters should be entirely swept away. No organisation can hope to be effective except under welldirected leadership. It is useless, if not absurd, to expect efficiency and to anticipate desired results where organisations with similar objectives practise varying methods and policies in different localities and lack uniformity both in policy and leadership.”