GROUSE FROM ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 11

GROUSE FROM ENGLAND.

EXPERIMENT IN ACCLIMATISATION. • (SPJXIAI, TO "TJLS_ PBE3S.") "WELLINGTON, September 20. Though several attempts have been mado to bring grouse alive to New Zealand, all have failed until this week, when six out of seven birds sent out by Lady Liverpool arrived alive. One died on the voyage. At one "time Mr T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, leased an English moor, on which he reared a number of grouse for shipment to New Zealand, but. they perished en route to the Dominion. It will be interesting to see whether the present experiment in acclimatisation mil be a success. Tho birds will be liberated in the Tongariro National Parki not far from Mounts Ngauruhoe and Euapehu, where there is a suitable moor in which some heather imported from Ireland is now growing. The birds will have somo natural enemies: stoats and weasels, hawks, and wild Ca Mr John Cullen, formerly Police Inspector Cullen, who is the warden of the Park, and is a keen sportsman, came specially to Wellington to take charge of the grouse. ■ They will be liberated as soon as they become accustomed to the climate of the park.