The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-22
.SPORTSMEN ASK
SUPERVISORS TO
PROTECT BIRDS
Say Present Enforcement Of Clos
ed Season Is a Farce
Demand Action
WANT DISTRIBUTION
OF WINGED ONES HERE
Names Of EagIe-Eyed vigiIants
Submitted For Appointment
w. AS Wardens

The supervisors, at last night 8 meet
ing, were the recipients of a memorial
in reference to the spread propagation
and protection of game birds, with n
special reference to the present or
pending importation Of game birds
which are, to be liberated on Oahu.
The memorial, which is signed by
sixty,six well-known sportsmen, is as
follows:
1.-THE undersigned, being residents
and citizens interested in hunting and
in the preservation of game, respect
full y address you asking that game
and game birds, for the importation of
which we are .lformed you are ex.
pending several dollars of public funds,
be released, for propagation and spread,
at the following places: Halemanu,
Mokuleia, Male and Pupukea, in the
Waialua district; Makaha, Waianea
district; Aiea homesteads and Halawa
in the Eva district; Waialae to Koko
Head; above Hauula, Koolaupoko dis
trict.
ave believe that game birds, i'm
ported for restocking the open places
of Oahu, should be liberated in sections
other than those being private pre-
serves, where for years past they have
been domieiled, so that persons other
than members of an exclusive gun
club can in due time pursue and hunt
such game or game bind
Want Birds Spread
1--WE believe that the general inter
ests will be served best by your homo,
able body endeavoring to spread ga,A
birds over the whole of this isl
rather than in one or two excl
places, and from which
places the birds cannot, by
, physical difficulties ofh'
spread, naturally, as they D
"We further believe that -
ing laws are not being Observed :. ~
that to prevent the wanton destructiL -
of breeding birds, they should for
term of, say three years, be wholly
and entirely protected from destruc-
ton by any means, and that this pro.
posed extended closed period, if proper.
ly enforced, would SO cause the stock
! ing of available and public shooting
lands, so as to provide sport, in its
best sense, for all who care to hunt
under permit.
I Inspection a Farce
'We further believe that the pres.
ent game inspection and guarding is
farce and that no one game warden
can adequately protect and conserve
/ the game now on this island.
1--WE therefore suggest that in each
OF the sub districts of this island thee
| should be appointed and commissioned
as special police officers, at least two
I persons who are residents therein, these
: to be appointed and commissioned by
, reason of their interest in game gen
orally, and who would because of their
local residence and knowledge of the
surrounding country, adequately pro
tect the game, and may cause the ar
rest of those who infringe the laws re.
lating to shooting and preservation of
game.
Suggest Wide -Awakes
1.-THE persons we suggest in the
premises, of course subject to your aP-
prevail and that of the appointing Off
| GERS, are: Halemanu, X. Thot: Moku-
iohdJ W. behlhaj Mariana, !. oJeWart,
George Meyer; Halawa, Robert Me
Keague; Waialae, Kenneth Mcclure,
G. N. c. Forster; Pupukea, V. Das-
sell; Puuloa, |. OF.
''And as still further suggestion in
| the line of the importation and preser.
walton of game we would say that the
mongoose, the most effective enemy of
ground birds, should not only be cap.
tured, but upon capture these pests
should be inoculated with the proper
destructive virus and then upon their
release they could spread the disease
from their incubation, and so, in com
paratively short space of time ma
terially decrease and there should be
a corresponding increase of birds.
Committee On Consultation
awe have appointed from among our
number, John B., Enos, Charles Hot.
tel, w. A. Alderman, V. M. Gedge,
, George X. Mills, John COlbuTn III, az
committee Of ourselves who will be
pleased to confer with your board or
any committee of your board in order
that such arrangements may be made
as will be conducive to the object and
purpose of this memorial
Supervisor Larsen moved that the
memorial be tabled.
The matter was referred to the police
committee for action.
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