POGROM ON THE KEA
PROTEST OF DEFENDERS. The executive of the Forest and Bird Protection Society continues to be strongly opposed to the agitation of pastoralists for a subsidised extermination of kens in sub-alpine country of the South Island. The defenders of the playful parrot declare that far too much credence is given to lurid allegations of the kea’s ‘•crimes” against sheep. They give a reminder that some of tiie owners or lessees of high country runs have destroyed the natural cover of the soil by excessive burning of tussock, and have thus prepared the way for erosion. which would spread to the better farming lands of the lower levels. Their belief is that an accurate fair-minded investigation of the whole matter would prove the kea to be a friend —not an enemy —of New Zealand". The society also reminds people that the occupiers of the high lands where the kea lives, took up their holdings with the full knowledge of the presence of keas, and that it is therefore their responsibility to find the means to kill the birds if they so desire. Gen • [oral taxpayers and ratepayers should I not be penalised for the benefit of the I individuals concerned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1939, Page 9
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202POGROM ON THE KEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1939, Page 9
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