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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9119, 19 June 1908, Page 5

A conference of the local bodies of Auckland has decided in favour of the Auckland Harbour Board taking control of the Manakau and adjacent harbours.

Though the object that prompted the declaring of a close season for paradise ducks was praiseworthy, ocular evidence is available that the Acclimatisation Society (on whose recommendation the Minister of Internal Affairs acts) would have done more for the protection of the birds by. declaring the season open. This statement may seem odd, but the explanation is simple. Jt'oison has been laid for rabbits, and the birds pick it up, with the result, a . recent visitor informs the "Southern Standard," that hundreds are killed. Were shooting allowed the ducks would be scared away by the gun, and the slaughter would certainly be less, while the game would be available for the table. As matters are, sport is prohibited, prized game goes to waste, and the paradise duck is rapidly disappearing. With a view to advertising the possibilities of the Dominion to intending settlers the New Zealand Shipping Company, in 1904, inaugurated a series of popular lantern lectures, entitled, "A Trip to New Zealand/' Since then 133 lectures have been given in various towns and cities in England, with gratifying succeso, 59,780 persons having attended. The largest attendance in London was at the Polytechnic, when the Hon. W. P. Reeves (High Commissioner) presided, 1,100 people being present on that occasion. Three thousand persons attended one meeting at the Metropole Theatre in Birmingham, on another occasion. , Tho views%xhibited by way of illustrating the Do-winiori's resources and scenic attractions proved highly popular, and were warmly by the press. The Pohangina County Council on Saturday had a rather strange claim for compensation made upon it. Mr George Euekman's youngest son, while going home from school, about a month apio, had to pass a gravel pit where a man in the employ of the County Council was breaicing bonders. The boy entered the pit, seized a hammer and hit a stone, a piece of which struck him in the eye, seriously injuring that organ. Mr Buckmaw stated in his letter to the Council that he had been legally advised that he had a good claim against-the Council, adding that the boy had not been ordered away when he went to use the hammer. Claimant stated that medical attendance, etc., had cost already £SO, and offered to settle the matter with the Council without going to law, but did not state how much he would require.

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