The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... imported animals ; and Professor Benham , F.R.S. , of Otago University , the Oligochates . These gentlemen have also given me much valuable general information . Invaluable assistance has been afforded me in regard both to introduced ...
... imported animals ; and Professor Benham , F.R.S. , of Otago University , the Oligochates . These gentlemen have also given me much valuable general information . Invaluable assistance has been afforded me in regard both to introduced ...
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... imported stoats and weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total destruction of the native bird life . There has been no settled policy . This has largely been ...
... imported stoats and weasels in order to cope with the rabbit pest ; another destroyed them wherever found because they threatened the total destruction of the native bird life . There has been no settled policy . This has largely been ...
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... imported some ( number not stated ) in 1869 ; five more in 1874-75 ; and four more in 1876. There is no record as to where they were liberated . Most of these came through Sir George Grey ; who liberated several grey opossums on Kawau ...
... imported some ( number not stated ) in 1869 ; five more in 1874-75 ; and four more in 1876. There is no record as to where they were liberated . Most of these came through Sir George Grey ; who liberated several grey opossums on Kawau ...
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... Imported Game within the meaning of the Animals Protection Act , 1908. " Thus it became illegal to catch or destroy them . By this time , however , the settlers in bush districts - at least in Otago had found the trapping of opossums a ...
... Imported Game within the meaning of the Animals Protection Act , 1908. " Thus it became illegal to catch or destroy them . By this time , however , the settlers in bush districts - at least in Otago had found the trapping of opossums a ...
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... imported game and they have been abso- lutely protected in certain areas . There is therefore no existing law in force giving power to declare an open season for these animals unless they were again declared to be either imported or ...
... imported game and they have been abso- lutely protected in certain areas . There is therefore no existing law in force giving power to declare an open season for these animals unless they were again declared to be either imported or ...
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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