SHOOTING SEASON
AUCKLAND RECOMMENDATION Members of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society decided, at a meeting on Saturday evening, to ask for 16 days from May 6 next for duck shooting, and two months for other game, with the same limit bags as before. One delegate said he thought that sportsmen would agree to a month for pheasants when the'position was explained to them. Other delegates spoke against a short season for pheasants, one of the delegates saying that from constant observation he had formed the opinion that pheasants were increasing:
The decision to ask for a two months' season was carried by 11 votes to 10.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 301, 20 December 1943, Page 4
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