PARADISE DUCKS.
PROTECTION NOT FAVORED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the House to-day, Mr. Clutha Mackenzie (Auckland .hast) moved the second reading of the Animals Protection and Game Amendment Bill (No. 2), already passed by the Legislative Council, which, provides for absolute protection of pukako and paradise ducks. The Hon. Sir Heaton Rhodes said he yielded to no one in his desire to protect these birds, but he felt they were not going about it in the right way. He was afraid that if farmers were not allowed to shoot them at all they would seek to destroy them altogether, because in some localities they did great damage. The Hon. G. J. Anderson protested against paradise ducks being protected because he was informed by farmers in Southland that they came in great flocks and destroyed large areas of crops. The Hon. W. D. Stewart said he was advised by experts that unless a short open season was allowed farmers would lay poison and the destruction of the birds would be far greater than if an open season was permitted. After further discussion opposition to the Bill became so manifest that the Premier moved to report progress, and on a division this was carried by 31 votes to 14.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1922, Page 5
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210PARADISE DUCKS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1922, Page 5
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