WILD DUCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 293, 10 December 1937, Page 3

WILD DUCK.

I CLOSE SEASON LIKELY "POT-HUNTING MOTORISTS." CONDEMNED BT MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. The opinion that the "pot-hunting motorist" would have to be abolished and that in all probability a close season for wild duck would be observed in the near future was expressed by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, speaking at the Wellington Acclimatisation Society's game farm at Paraparaumu. Mr. Parry also mentioned the need of careful conservation of imported and indigenous game. "I am going to appeal to all sportsmen to do everything they possibly can to put out the pot hunter, who, probably even without a license, knocks over a bird feeding at the roadside and puts it into his car," he sard. "I can't speak too strongly against such people." The Minister said he believea there would have to be a close season sooner or later for wild duck. He had often "taken his gun for a walk" and returned empty handed. "The grey duck is going," he added. "It is a wonderful bird to have held ite own for so long." The grey duck was being given no respite, and the pity of it was that it was the young birds —the laying birds—that were being killed out. "I know the societies won't agree with me, but I shall go on putting it foiward again and again, because I believe it to be for the good of New Zealand shooting men," he concluded, while inspecting the farm. Mr. Parry saw 1000 of this sea" son's pheasant chicks being reared and thousands of eggs either in process of or ready for incubation.