CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Evening Mail." Sir— l should like to ask, through tbe medium of your columns, what is being done to abate the serious sparrow nuisance. We are forming a Jam Company here, but, unless the sparrows are destroyed, we shall have no fruit for their use. I notice the country settlers are trying to rid themselves of this nuisance, but fear that nothing is being done in town, and I would like to invite suggestions as to the best means of destroying these pests, as it can only be successfully accomplished by uuited action. Perhaps some of our chemists would b« prepared to poison wheat and sell to their customers ; perhaps, Sir, you can tell us something better, if bo oblige Yours, &c, Amateur.
[In the South, aud we believe in Marlborough, the chemists are selling poisoned grain at a rery low rate, and tbis is being largely used with deadly effect in the war now being waged against the small birds. —Ed. N.E.M.]
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 176, 26 July 1880, Page 2
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