The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... destroy rabbits and small birds ; another destroys them because they attack game . One district imported stoats and weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total ...
... destroy rabbits and small birds ; another destroys them because they attack game . One district imported stoats and weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total ...
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... destroying things which it was desirable should be preserved . Legislation had to be resorted to in order to destroy some introduced things and to protect others . Noxious Weeds Act , Animal Protection Acts , Injurious Birds Acts , and ...
... destroying things which it was desirable should be preserved . Legislation had to be resorted to in order to destroy some introduced things and to protect others . Noxious Weeds Act , Animal Protection Acts , Injurious Birds Acts , and ...
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... destroy them for their skins , while others — especially the Acclimatisation Societies— claimed protection for them and demanded the introduction of restric- tive legislation . Some idea of their increase may be gathered from the ...
... destroy them for their skins , while others — especially the Acclimatisation Societies— claimed protection for them and demanded the introduction of restric- tive legislation . Some idea of their increase may be gathered from the ...
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... destroying plantations - apparently an attempt to justify the destruction of the animals which was then commencing ... destroy them . By this time , however , the settlers in bush districts - at least in Otago had found the trapping of ...
... destroying plantations - apparently an attempt to justify the destruction of the animals which was then commencing ... destroy them . By this time , however , the settlers in bush districts - at least in Otago had found the trapping of ...
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... destroying so many young ones . Mr Hurrell of Ararata ( Hawera ) tells me they are destructive to fruit trees in his ... destroyed by them . In " Nature Notes " in the Lyttelton Times of 19th October , 1912 , by Mr Jas . Drummond this ...
... destroying so many young ones . Mr Hurrell of Ararata ( Hawera ) tells me they are destructive to fruit trees in his ... destroyed by them . In " Nature Notes " in the Lyttelton Times of 19th October , 1912 , by Mr Jas . Drummond this ...
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abundant Acclimatisation Society Agricultural Department animals appear Ashburton attacked Auckland district Auckland Society introduced Australia Bay of Islands beetle birds breeding brown trout bush Canterbury Society received Chatham Islands Christchurch common cultivated deer destroyed distributed dogs Dunedin early eggs Family fish flowers fruit further record garden escape hatched Hatchery Hawke's Bay Hokitika Hooker's list imported increase insect Invercargill Lake land large number larvæ Linn Manual Maori Maskell moth native naturalised Nelson Society North Island occurring opossums Otago Society pest pheasants Philpott pigs plants ponds probably Queen Charlotte Sound rabbits rats recorded by Kirk recorded in Hooker's reported River salmon says season seeds seen sheep shipment shipped Society liberated South Southland Southland Society sparrows spawning species specimens spread starlings Stewart Island stoats streams taken Taranaki Tasmania trees W. W. Smith Waikato Waitaki Wanganui waste places weasels weed Wellington Society Whangarei wild young Zealand