DUCKS DISAPPOINT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 12

DUCKS DISAPPOINT

BIRDS FLYING HIGH

FEW LIMITS SHOT

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

PALMERSTON N., This Day

Generally speaking, poor' bags were secured at the opening of the shooting season, in- the Manawatu district.

At; Hunia Lake; where the GovernorGeneral was among the sportsmen, luck was out.

The following '' bags'' are reported

Foxton-Himatangi district: No. 2 lake,; 7 guns, 30 ducks; No. 3 lake, 4 guns,' 22 ducks; No. 4 lake, 4 guns, 24 ducks; Kopafcara, 13 guns, 50 ducks; Hunia, 10 guns, 30 ducks; Pukepukeilake, 13 guns, 35 ducks.

Manawatu.—Rangiotu lake, 6 guns, 120 ducks,(two,days, limit both days); James lake, 3 guns,.2l ducks; Keeble's lake, 2 guns, 13 ..ducks, .

Rangitikei district.—Smith's lake, 6 guns, 60 ducks; Whittington's lake, 7 guns, 40 ducksj Round's Bush, 3 guns, 30 ducks; Solan's lake, 3 guns, 17 ducks; Mount lake, 2 guns, 20 ducks; Lake Alice, 6 guns, 20 ducks; Nursery lake, 8 guns, 25 ducks. ,

The opening day was too fine for successful shooting, the ducks flying high. One party had more luck in the search for pheasants, and secured the limit of six cock birds —two birds per gun. Shortlybefore the opening of the season there was a big flock of ducks numbering about 2000 on the river at Tolomaruj but they departed when the guns began to speak, only a few being shot.