PHEASANT SHOOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 11

PHEASANT SHOOTING.

LIBERATING BIRDS EARLY. POLICY TO BE ENFORCED. A proposed alteration in the pheasant liberation policy was the subject of much discussion at the monthly meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society last night. Experiences which members from all over the area put for. ward differed in many cases, but it was finally decided to enforce the policy approved by the whole society in 1928. Mr. Nicholson, of Hamilton, who had proposed an alteration, said that birds were being liberated at such a date that they could be shot at before they had a chance to breed. However, the strict enforcing of the early policy would completely satisfy the need. "It is to the advantage of all sportsmen in every club to adopt the policy put forward in 1928," said another member. The meeting agreed that the society could not afford to liberate birds to be shot, but only to breed. The president, Mr. F. E. MacKenzie, said that the policy he had put forward in 1928 was that the sub-societies should liberate their birds on land approved by the ranger, which would then be closed for one year. This would give the birds a chance to become wild and to breed. The scheme had been approved by all sub-societies and had worked well in most cases. The resolution was carried unanimously. ' J