SLAUGHTER IN RHODESIA
Sia,—May I make one or two comments- on --Mr. DaVey's letter in your issue of--May 3rd? It is not „native hunting- of game for food or in defence of crops that lovers of the African fauna deplore: It is extermina- tion by modern weapons with its lucrative- trade in meat and bides. Mr. DaVey would have us adhere to the recommendations or a 'committee of thirty years ago. Is that the best we can do? A Member- of- the Rhodesian Legislature said in debate- that thirty times as Mitch money was spent by the Government On slaughter as on research. 'Yet, although the tsetse fly is notoriously easy to capture, and is a slow breeder, and although the wild game itself has developed an immunity to the bite of the fly, the Rhodesian Government with all the resources of the scientific world to draw on leaves the problem to the local " expert " "com- mittee of experts" who for fifteen years stick no one simple plan, "Off with their heads "—not the heads of the netse. but of the beautiful wild
creatures on which it browses.—Yours faithfully, G. K. MAURICE. Manton Weir, Marlborough.
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