BIRD SANCTUARY
CONVERSION TO MOTOR CAMP. OPPOSED BY ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A decision to take over an area at Hokowhitu Lagoon, which is a bird sanctuary, for use as a motor camp, was criticised by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society Council last night. The chairman said the Society had legal .advice that it had no 'standing in the matter and that this opinion seemed to leave the Society in the air until some action was taken by the ranger to prevent interference with the nesting of birds. It was pointed out by a member that if the road were put round no harm need necessarily be done, unless the raupo forming the sanctuary was disturbed. Members are to confer with the subcentre at Palmerston North with a view to approaching the Palmerston North City Council on the matter. An agreement was confirmed where-' by an exchange of pheasants with Rotorua will be made. Three sittings of twelve each will be received from the game farm conducted by the Department of Internal Affairs at Ngongataha and a similar number will be sent by the Society to the authorities in the Rotorua ‘ district.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 9
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195BIRD SANCTUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 9
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