U.S. GAME ARCHER FINDS GOOD SPORT IN DOMINION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29273, 3 August 1960, Page 12

U.S. GAME ARCHER FINDS GOOD SPORT IN DOMINION

“He would put Robin Hood to shame,” was the description given of Mr Allen Orr, a visiting American archer, lawyer, photographer. farmer and former bomber pilot, by Mr R. Forrester, a New Zealand professional guide who is accompanying him on a two months’ hunting expedition of the Dominion.

Since early in July, Mr Orr has been hunting with bow and arrow in the Auckland, Rotorua, Bay and Mount Cook districts, shooting opossums, deer, wild pigs, thar and chamois. In Christchurch yesterday he praised the opportunities available for hunters in New Zealand. With the plentiful supplies of game and so few restrictions on the hunter, New Zealand was an ideal shooting country. In other parts of the world hunters were hampered by licences, limited seasons, game laws and difficulties over trespassing. But here they were much freer and were treated more as neighbours than as intruders.

“I have been fascinated by the ruggedness of the New Zealand but ‘t is generally more climbable and not as rough as I had imagined,” said Mr Orr. I would definitely recommend this country to any archer or hunter, and not just to the i

wealthy ones. I have been saving up for this trip for the last 20 years and consider it will have been thoroughly worthwhile.” In the United States game archery was still not a major sport as was target archery, although numbers of game archery followers had increased in the last 10 years, said Mr Orr. This was because it was now realised that with the continued use of firearms in hunting, the nation's game resources would eventually dwindle.

One of the most outstanding trophies Mr Orr has secured so far is a large thar he xhot recently in the Mount Coofclistrict. When he returns to the United States it will be mounted complete with “hide, horns and everything” to commemorate the quarry which “almost had me groaning."