THE SPARROW .
The Waikato Times speaks in hitter terms of Hie ravages of the sparrow in that district. It says :—The destruction of the sparrow has boon commenced on a wholesale scale in Auckland. As far as the sparrows are concerned we are glad to hear it, for a greater pest, and curse to the farmer and especially to the gardener was never imported into the colony than that bird, not even the Scotch thistle, twitch grass, and the education rate. It is time that the Acclimatisation Society came forward, cried peccavi, and made amends for the error it has committed by organising sparrow clubs for the destruction, of this feathered vermin—otherwise we very much fear that many an innocent songster will share the fate of these grain and fruit-eating - rascals in their indiscriminate extermination by poison.’ 1
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2
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138THE SPARROW. Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2
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