NEW ZEALAND’S LATEST

Taihape Daily Times, 1 October 1919, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND’S LATEST

' __ 0 v“__’_ 1‘: V-‘)7;-.1.:‘.‘ .7’).-",aZ . “‘New Zcélancl farlnél's,"’ “sa'§,‘-§“’ltH'L" ‘ Mlanrchcstz-1' Gual'diall, “ b2a.v<:~ <s_tal'l‘ed a crusade tzga‘lnst"!hé'LV; "?I'és3 markblc bird, ‘the kca. Uxilesé’ f'll‘tsy" 66 so, fll(3'b‘il'(l‘flll'(§3.fC]lS to kill'ss‘Vs’CJff 'th'-ous-ands of ‘sheep and rllil'l‘t'h"éi?c£ltln"= try’s inaustfy. The kca, is a‘?kl°fild?si6‘f gparrot, sxnallefthan the rc'joli':T.-I‘2ia:lli3.-fias an immensely strong ])éill{‘£'il‘l’(:l “‘Forty_ years ago. thel-9'-“t‘\}‘el-ee‘7v'iiry few kea. parrots in New -Z?Mlii#<T. but; since then they have grown ’-‘lnt ?1f11f11"B§rs, and they are now -the comm‘olfE2st“?'b’i'rds i in the islands. The kea. attziéiis-'zs!i§3ep day and night, and at ~'oné‘- farm alone. Hitlwas found that seventy sheep had . b€‘oll~ killed it eig‘nt.hours by 'fli‘<:f-.B§rr]s. _ strikes the sheep on the head, tears é open the ‘body with its" cl-arws,vr?a'¢’llld " §ol'gcs on the warm flesh’. Hundrecls of 1:11-Q4 nl=a¢ral‘lders have been killed, but in spife of this they seem ‘to-‘,fTh’r'iV‘c{§_ ‘.“:?l‘he.curiollAs thing is ‘that {he male ;bug_ fzannot. be diéuuguzshea" from. 1:119 Allcnfand no’ nest has ever b'eé.n found. Nygone is able to say wime the bird , b‘_bl"eC‘,dS,‘9.n(.l when, .an-d 3-oung_.bi]‘.dS.ar‘e _ ynever seen. Tlic Vorgahised “_,_,”, .u.;,ai.nsVt T “the ‘kca may bring to light one (Sf the.