A WORLD SEARCH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 41, 28 November 1938, Page 4

A WORLD SEARCH.

SHOOTING OF BIG GAME. FARAIERS VIEW THE TROPHIES. An astonishing array of trophies of shooting expeditions carried out in many countries by Mr John Faulks, of Pembroke, on the shores of Lake ’Wanaka, were inspected by the Ashburton farmers’ touring party when they were at Pembroke last Friday afternoon. Because the wet weather had caused the cancellation of a sight-seeing trip the party had planned, Air Faulks invited the visitors to his home to see his trophies, and the inspection was greatly appreciated. In a. specially-constructed building at the rear of his home, Air Faulks has set up scores of skins, mounted heads and other specimens, which he described as the farmers went the round of the large room. There was a huge horn from a rhinoceros, bear skins, antlers from a of animals, a zebra, skin, a cougar head, a wolf head, leopard skins and an armadillo.

Speaking afterwards of his experiences in Alaska, Siberia and Africa, Air Faulks said that when he was in Alaska in search of moose (a huge moose head that fell to his gun is mounted and hanging in the dining-room of the hotel at Pembroke) he had to pay as much as £3 a day for his guides and assistants, but in Africa he had a following of 80 “boys,” who cost him threepence a day each.

Paper Money at Home. In the evening the party, made a 14mile trip to Mr Faulks’ stud farm, which is managed by Air Faulks’ son, Stewart. There they saw the noted stallion Paper Aloney, now 24 years old, and a number of stud animals, of which a large number are kept. Among them is Ilian, by Iliad, a beautifully-coloured and blooded three-year-old, kept for stud purposes since he was injured when he was a yearling. § Mr Faulks told a “Guardian” reporter that Paper Aloney’s progeny have won for their owners stakes valued at just over £200,000. Four remarkably fine yearlings were seen in another paddock, and the docility of the animals and their response to kind treatment was remarked on by the tourists. The farm itself, where a wonderful growth of grass goes on throughout the year on soil 20 foot deep, was also looked over. Darkness prevented the inspection of the heavier stud horses.