THE KEA PEST.
SHIPOWNERS' PETITIONING THE GOVERNMENT. MSB PBEBS ASSOCIATION. Chbistciiubch, February 15. A meeting of landowners at Culver, den to-day passed' resolutions urging the Government to increase the bonus of sixpence each fpaid for kea's heads, and asking (he County Councils in Canterbury affected by the kea nuisance to co-operate with them iu petitioning the Government for assistance in reducing the pest. Keas have come down over the dividing range into the mountainous parts of tho Amuri Country in 'increasing numbers during the last two years, having apparently moved upwards from the South. Runholders place the losses of sheep from this cause at eight per cent, last year, and fifteen per cent, this year. Two hundred Keas were shot on one station iu eighteen mouths, and sixty beaks collected on another iu a year.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8051, 16 February 1906, Page 2
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135THE KEA PEST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8051, 16 February 1906, Page 2
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