PARK AT ROTORUA.
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION. DOMINION SCHEME STARTED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) i WELLINGTON, Friday. An announcement that the Governr ment would establish a national game park at Ngongotaha, near Rotorua, as a centre for a general game-breeding scheme for the Dominion was made this evening by the Ministor of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry. Mr. John Digby, for many years curator for the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, has been appointed curator of the new farm.
"The decision to establish the farm, which will breed and rear pheasaijts mainly, is brought about principally by the now apparent decline in numbers and in quality of the birds in the game shooting territories of the Dominion," the Minister said. "The State game farm should be the nucleus of a splendid game-breeding institution, which could expand and provide the shooting territories with birds which thev now lack."
Mr. Digby, with Mr. J. Bennett,, of t'lie game and fisheries branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, left this evening to start his new duties. He took with him 12 pheasants, nine of which were imported from England by Mr. Robert Conn, a well-known Cliristehurch game sportsman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 10
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