Checking the Wild Dog Menace in
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Viti Levu
AMONG the new Bills presented at the last meeting of the Fiji Legis lative Council was one entitled The Dogs (Amendment) Bill 1938, to deal with the menace of wild dogs on the main island of Viti Levu.
For some years, wild dogs have done much damage among poultry and live stock. The Government, therefore, con sidered it desirable to take measures to destroy unregistered dogs at large, and the Bill makes the necessary pro visions. Public notice will be given of the methods of destruction, the place, and the time when they will be carried out, so that owners of valuable and pet dogs may take steps to safeguard them.
On two other Fiji islands, Taveuni and Vanua Levu, dogs are highly prized, to keep down wild pigs which are a great nuisance to plantation owners. In those places, unless trained dogs are kept, the pigs root up young coconut trees and vegetable patches as soon as they are planted.