Shooting Sitting Game
Sir,—Surely all true sportsmen must have been profoundly shocked when they read the Press Association report on Tuesday recording that the conference of South Island Acclimatisation Societies, held at Oamaru, tied adopted, by 22 votes to 16, a remit asking the Department orf Internal Affairs to legalise the shooting of ducks on the waiter. That the societies, or the majority of them, should be on the side of the pot-hunters is truly amazing. Shooting sitting game, whether it be a feather or fur. is a sickening practice. In the case of duck it usually means lining the birds up to get two or more with one shot I have known shooters to get as many as eight with one barrel—plain slaughter without any semblance of sportsmanship. This conference recommendation will strengthen a growing conviction that the Department of Internal Affairs should assume complete control of wild life administration. —Yours, etc., H.M. March 29, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 3
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