SPORTSMAN FROM MALAYA,

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 9

SPORTSMAN FROM MALAYA,

TO STUDY OUR WAPITI.

PRESERVATION OF GAME.

KEEPING TRADE OUT OF SPORT.

It will be a matter of interest to New Zealand sportsmen to hear that in taroff Washington, 8.C.. there are people interested in the wapiti of the Dominion. X noted big-game hunter from the Malay Peninsula, Mr. T. R. Hubback. who arrived in Auckland yesterday by the 4oranpi. having come from London via New York, met an old friend, Dr. Nelson, vTio is head of the Biological j Survey of the United States of America. , Dr. Nelson, whose headquarters are m j Washington, is extremely interested in | the wapiti in this country, and asked Mr. Hubback to gather for him information regarding the animals here, because he wants to keep a tab on what happens to the species when they arc put in new country. Mr. Hubback." who will spend about three month? in New Zealand, during which time he will fish at Russell and hunt in the South Island, hopes to enter the wapiti country and gain the required knowledge. Hunting on Peninsula. In an interview with a "Star" representative yesterday. Mr. Hubback, who wil be the guest of Mr. 11. Kardcastle. the well-known Rotorua sportsman, j while he is in New Zealand, said that in the Malay Peninsula, there was hunted elephants" rhinoceroses and gaur. or wild cattle, also deer. Tigers could be got. but they were not easy to hunt on account of the density of' the forest undergrowth. Mr. Hubback is very keen on the question of game preservation, a matter which is receiving considerable attention in Malaya at the presen time. In the Peninsula. Mr. Hubback has been doing a [certain amount of honorary work as a jgame warden. Very strict laws are enforced in order to preserve, more or less I permanently, the big-frame hunting areas. No game, big or small, can be shot except under license or in special circumstances. Native Poachers. '•We have had quite a little difficulty with the matter of poaching by the natives." said the visitor. "A great deal of big game was seriously hammered for some years, but 1 think we have the mattpr well in hand now. and I for many year? to come, sportsmen will be able to <io to the Malay Peninsula and get good hunting."

Mr. T. R. Hubback, a visitor from ! Malay S*ates, -who arrived by the Niagara this morning. He is going to try to get a -wapiti in the fiord country. j I The whole key note of game preservation was to prevent the killing of animals for profit and to make it impossible for j trade to be carried on in game, trophies i or meat. Those behind the movement ' had as their objective, the keeping of i commercialism out of the sport. Big Game Preserves. "In the State of Pahang alone we! have about 500.000 acres of game pre- \ serves." said Mr. Hubback. "and efforts are being made to preserve still more ; areas, so that we will have adequate sant-tuaries for game." Mr. Hubback is a keen fisherman. He ' will go north with Mr. H. Hardcastle and i will fish for trout later. The two sports-j men will tour the Dominion and hunt in | the south, when, as stated beiore. wapiti j will engage the attention of the visitor j from Malaya. _ ; Mr. Hubback'a profession is that of ! civil engineering, and while in New Zea- j land he proposes also to investigate I I variome aspects of our hydro-electric '. ! schemes. He is especially interested in ■ watching the progress and inquiring into j the success of the New Zealand activities, in view of the that a large scheme is under consideration in the i Malay Peninsula, in the State of Perak. This hydro-electric proposition is being I planned by the Armstrong Whitworth , j Company, which has the big Arapuni I contract in hand.