DESTRUCTIVE BIRDS.
TO THE BDITOB. Sib,— Myself, with a few other fruit growers, had decided to advertise a meeting to see if we could a committee, or a fruitgrowers' association, to see if there is any way of destroying the English blackbirds and thrush, as they are getting very bad on all kinds of fruit m this district. Now the question comes, Are these said birds protected by the Acclimatisation Society ? and as there is a branch of that society in Temuka we shall be obliged if you answer through the columns of your paper. If they are protected by that society we, as fruitgrowers in this part of the district, may as well give up fruit growing at once, as the above named birds are doubling themselves every year, and they are destroying the fruit by the bushel. As they will not take the poisoned grain, and the road boards have stopped paying for eggs, we must try something else. By answering this question you will oblige, yours, etc., John Pte.
[They are not protected. Kill them as fast as you can. This letter got mislaid, or it would have appeared sooner.—The Editor.]
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1865, 14 March 1889, Page 3
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194DESTRUCTIVE BIRDS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1865, 14 March 1889, Page 3
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