INTRODUCED GAME

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 14

INTRODUCED GAME

Julius Von Haast Quoted Professor G. A. Knox drew laughter in his presidential address to the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zeeland last evening when he quoted a paragraph from Sir Julius von Haast’s writings on acclimatisation. We should like to see the hare and the partridge in our fields, the stately deer, the roe, and the pheasant occupy- , our bi-lls and forests whilst our alpine rivers are well calculated for the abode and propagation of the salmon the ,-2 rou4 ” von Haast wrote. The most rugged of our mountain summits might become the venue of the chamois (laughter) and offer not only to us. but to future generations, the exciting pleasure and manly exercise of the chase. . H$ r e Haast lacked foresight, said Professor Knox. Bfe could not foresee the groat destruction to native 0,1 the steep slopes the Southern Alps which had been brought about by the introduction of thar, chamois, deer, opossums, and wneep.

!L. te u WeU <ive when asked, but it is better to give, unasked, through understanding.—Kahlil Gibran.