The question of liberating blue mountain duck and teal on Kapiti Island was before the last meeting ol the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, when a letter from Dr. W. R. B. Oliver was read. In it he expressed the opinion that the island was quite suitable for the purpose. Another letter stated that the Department of Internal Affairs was still considering the society's request for the transference of these birds. Members said that they could see no reason why permission should be withheld, and the request to the department was reiterated that the Government should take over the whole of the island as a bird sanctuary. That part of Hie island was not a 'sanctuary rather militated against the success which would otherwise attend the liberation of duck and teal
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 5
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