BIG GAME SHOOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 19

BIG GAME SHOOTING.

PROSPECTS AT LAKE

WHANGAPE.

AUCKLAND SPORTSMEN WARNED

[' the present arrangements are adhered to there is likely to be some •jig-game" shooting on Lake Whangape *nen the shooting season opens at six "clock on the morning of May 1. In the past it haß been the custom of sportsmen to reserve their duck-shooting Positions from year to year, the practice wing to place a board with their names attached, and this notification was hon oared by other sportsmen. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society has adopted • new rule which, in effect, requires that to reserve a position for himself a sportsman must get a license and put ■ta number and his name and address on the notice reserving the site. Taking advantage of the new rule, a number ox new sportsmen have jumped the claims of others who had come to look upon them as their own by right of possession. The older generation of sportsmen are naturally incensed and have gone in and built loos alongside of the newcomers, w ith the result that many are within gunshot of each other and there is a danger of men instead of ducks being •hot.

Mr. John Mnrrell, a sportsman of many years' standing, said that Lake Vhangape to-day looks like a field with corn stooks. He travelled round the . for miles there was not a posilon open. He met one party of eight o had been shooting on the same ground for fifteen years and everyone oi their positions had been jumped. They ere building alongside their old posi--I°°'' They were quite within their warned shooters who think tk» C * n 8° np a couple of days before l __ ,eaßon * n d get a position that they th • Uot a chance. Mr. Murrell said °U - a * a ' r n,,ni ber of wild duck a irnnrf HU "' tt P e Rnd the prospects for artWiCEL*'"* 011 * s P° rt are excellent. In of duck there ie l ui te a number tai black * wall and qu*'!- He ev«n i* 00 * b * gß were anticipated mL.W- a number would be we shooting grounds.