Sir,—When our hearts are being '■' daily wrung by accounts of death and disaster, I was especially grieved to read in your columns of a party of our most prominent Cabinet Ministers having good sport shooting ducks (I presume wild ones) on a pond. If the lust for slaughter is so strong, it could surely find an outlet where the odds on ; either side are more 'equal rather than by killing or wounding God's beautiful and .defenceless creatures on a pond.—Yours, etc., ; SARAHS. PAGE. » May 6, 1941. 'Sir;—Duck shooting over a pond is a v, delightful sport; 'it provides a greater ' variety of shots than any other type of . calls for a high standard / Of .shooting skill. The first shot is „ taken when the ducks are approaching -„,fhe pond or are about to alight on the water*, and the second when they are oft—both difficult shots; especi,§«Hy in a,wind. Sometimes the birds th6 pond before attempt-. WM&& ~o9bt?'tma the'shot is an easy wmpr/ A«aln,.,they,,inay alight on the »sptter£*,laeiore being in time HPSI-.*hpt MMf tab© jnade to fly. ll^yM» 'Slight-j» not a difficult rl
fills the bag. This way of killing ducks should not be allowed, and on the shooting licence a penalty for the offence ought to be stated.—Yours, etc., R. May 6, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23323, 8 May 1941, Page 12
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