The Naturalisation of Animals & Plants in New ZealandThe University Press, 1922 - 607 pages |
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... localities , wherever it seemed to them that they would grow . No biological considerations ever disturbed their dreams , nor indeed did they ever enter into their calculations . I have been on the council of an acclimatisation society ...
... localities , wherever it seemed to them that they would grow . No biological considerations ever disturbed their dreams , nor indeed did they ever enter into their calculations . I have been on the council of an acclimatisation society ...
Page 26
... localities . I cannot help thinking that this is the species which Mr Michael Studholme either imported direct from Tasmania , or bought from the Canterbury Society , and liberated at Waimate , South Canterbury . There they have ...
... localities . I cannot help thinking that this is the species which Mr Michael Studholme either imported direct from Tasmania , or bought from the Canterbury Society , and liberated at Waimate , South Canterbury . There they have ...
Page 29
... localities they appear to have increased to a great extent , becoming so abundant in some parts that people began to destroy them for their skins , while others — especially the Acclimatisation Societies— claimed protection for them and ...
... localities they appear to have increased to a great extent , becoming so abundant in some parts that people began to destroy them for their skins , while others — especially the Acclimatisation Societies— claimed protection for them and ...
Page 44
... locality , six fawns taken from the Wairarapa herd were liberated on the banks of the Fresh Water River at the head of Paterson Inlet in April , 1901. In the following year twelve more from the Werribee Park herd were liberated in the ...
... locality , six fawns taken from the Wairarapa herd were liberated on the banks of the Fresh Water River at the head of Paterson Inlet in April , 1901. In the following year twelve more from the Werribee Park herd were liberated in the ...
Page 58
... localities ; one runholder has paid year after year for as many as a thousand during the season . At Moonlight , a digger , during the past nine months , has shot 550. My informant tells me he was offered 2s . 3d . a skin for as many as ...
... localities ; one runholder has paid year after year for as many as a thousand during the season . At Moonlight , a digger , during the past nine months , has shot 550. My informant tells me he was offered 2s . 3d . a skin for as many as ...
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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