KEA HEADS.
AN INCREASED BONUS URGED. SERIOUS LOSSES. CHRISTOHUROH, February 15. A meeting of landownors at Culverden, to-day, passed resolutions urging the Government to lucreaao the bonus of sixpence each paid for keas' heads, and asking the County Councils in Canterbury affected by tho kea nuisance to co-operate with them in petitioning the Government for assistance in reducing tho pest. The keas have come down over tho dividing range into tho mountaiuous parts of the Amuri County in increasing numbers during the last two years, having apparently moved upwards from the South. Rnuholders estimate their losses of sheep from this cause at 8 per cent, last year and at 15 per cent, this year. Two hundred keas wore shot on one station in eighteen months, and sixty beaks collected on another in a year.
TEL EGR AMS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7965, 16 February 1906, Page 5
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140KEA HEADS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7965, 16 February 1906, Page 5
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