SHOOTING SEASON.
IN TAUMARUNUI DISTRICT,
(From Our Owa Correspondent.)
TAUMARUNUI, Wednesday
The weather was fine this morning for the opening of the shooting season, and shortly after daybreak guns could be heard in all directions. Pheasant and quail are plentiful in the Taringamotu, Okahukura and Ongarue districts, and when sportsmen returned home this evening several were able to produce two and three brace of pheasants and numerous quail.
The birds are in excellent condition, due, no doubt, to the abundance of feed, many settlers having grown good crops of maize, which is a great attraction for pheasant.
Duck have been seen in largo numbers on the Wanganui and Ongarue Rivers and small lagoons near Taumarumii for several months past, but no lar<re bags were secured by sportsmen to-dav.
Although weasels an<l \vil<l cats are plentiful in several localities, the pheasants are undoubtedly on the increase, and thanks are dut to the Auckland Acclimatisation Society for liberating so many grown birds in this district during last and previous years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 10
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