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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 39, 15 February 1910, Page 6

•A big game hunter, just arrived from India and Thibet, Mr P. F. Hadow, told a Christchurch reporter that the Himalayan thar, which have been introduced into Canterbury, in their native country live in some of the wildest and most inaccessible places he had seen. In some instances he found that it was quite impossible to get at them. He is not very sanguine that they will be a success in New Zealand, chiefly on account of the small extent of country. He does not think that the wild Asian sheep, on the whole, would thrive in New Zealand, but he tEinks that viral, of Western Thibet, might be introduced with advantage. It is a pretty animal, does not get into inaccessible places, and will not become a nuisance to anyone. As to the introduction of other big game, he says that he does not think it was advisable to introduce moose. He holds the same opinion in regard to wapiti, as ho is afraid that there might be interbreeding with the deer herds, and that deterioration would result. Mr Hadow has come to New Zealand for the purpose of obtaining one good bead of the red deer here, to be added to his collection in England. He wishes to shoot with that object alone, and if he cannot get a really good __wdiftTwiU3^ : 't__ke-a_r£,