"The war on cats is certainly justifiable. Quite recently some friends of mine in the Omahuta Forest heard a commotion in a nearby tree, and were shocked to see a wild cat descending with a struggling native pigeon in its mouth, held by the neck. A man gave chase, but the cal got away with its prey through the undergrowth,” so writes a member of the Forest and Bird Protection Society from Okaihau.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 9
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