OPENING OF DUCK SHOOTING SEASON AT LAKE ELLESMERE.—Though the opening of the duck shooting season on Saturday provided the worst sport for many years, a strong easterly breeze yesterday and last evening stirred the ducks and more birds were taken. TOP LEFT: A party of Tai Tapu sportsmen with their game. Standing from left are Messrs B. Dalgety, A. H. C. Nutt, and J. McKenzie; in front are Messrs L. and W. A. Anderson. TOP RIGHT: Mr R. Court (Tai Tapu) setting decoys on the lake. BOTTOM LEFT: Mr B. Cummings (Greymouth) anxiously watching a flight of swans late yesterday. BOTTOM RIGHT: The camp cook frying mushrooms, which had been gathered near the lake, for breakfast.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27339, 3 May 1954, Page 7
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116OPENING OF DUCK SHOOTING SEASON AT LAKE ELLESMERE.—Though the opening of the duck shooting season on Saturday provided the worst sport for many years, a strong easterly breeze yesterday and last evening stirred the ducks and more birds were taken. TOP LEFT: A party of Tai Tapu sportsmen with their game. Standing from left are Messrs B. Dalgety, A. H. C. Nutt, and J. McKenzie; in front are Messrs L. and W. A. Anderson. TOP RIGHT: Mr R. Court (Tai Tapu) setting decoys on the lake. BOTTOM LEFT: Mr B. Cummings (Greymouth) anxiously watching a flight of swans late yesterday. BOTTOM RIGHT: The camp cook frying mushrooms, which had been gathered near the lake, for breakfast. Press, Volume XC, Issue 27339, 3 May 1954, Page 7
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