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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 24 Aug 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Writing of the Canterbury acclimatisers’ war upon the weka (whose alleged crime was the eating of pheasants’ eggs), Mr. J. S. Myers comments: “And this is the bird of which Guthrie-Smith writes … of its efficiency as a rat-destroyer… The days of cock-fighting are over, but crimes are still committed in the name of ‘Sport.’”
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Black-and-white photo: Shows a weka walking through grass, taken on Kapiti Island on 26 February 1927. Photographer, Robert Hector Donald (Bob) Stidolph (1900–1979). Masterton District Council, Stidolph, Robert Hector Donald: Ornithological photographic negatives (03-174/5). https://masterton.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ARCENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=2347433
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