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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 18, 26 July 1901, Page 2

Kaipara Flats. Many of the settlers here are in sympathy with the tenor of your art- « de re the present Game Laws, and ' some are of the opinion that the Ac- ' uinaatization Society would do better ] ;o spend the money on exterminating • Vermin which ar6 rapidly increasingmd destroy far more game than the { settlers, rather than in employing officials to pry upon the settlers, who ' ire a law-abiding community. If by jhance a settler shoot a "prohibited bird" —"prohibited* by a society .hat has done little for the good oi the settler, —who has the more right than .he man who feeds the birds all the pear round. In preserving the native birds— or otherwise—l am in warm accord, as few, if any, dp injury to the .rops, but unless some large areas of -'bush" can be conserved, the extinction of some spec:es is merely a question of time. The next meeting of the Farmers' Union in this district will be held on Monday the 29th. of July instead of Saturday the 27th. as an important meeting of the ' Rodney Agricultural Society is to be held at Warkworth ' on 27th. and several members of ch•■■• Union are also members of the R. A.! Society. \ A Library Scoial will be held at! Kaipara Flats on Friday July 26. onj the same conditions as the last social. ! (A Correspondent.) I ■i I

Maungaturoto,

In your last issue your Port Albert I correspondent asks "Why are the people north of hero (Port Albert) no apathetic over the matter of the North Auckland Railway? Wo are not, apathotic, only exhausted. Give us a little time to recover from the tremendous agitation cf Ir.st year, and its tremendous -r.uit: appltry vote o*. .'215.000. • We av-T begic-uEg to ask' each