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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 26

Prospects for the coming open season for game in Southland are reported to be particularly bright as regards ducks at least. At the last meeting of the Acclimatisation Society the Ranger’s report stated that grey ducks and paradise ducks were unusually plentiful. Many sportsmen have already erected mimis on favoured spots and, given suitable weather, many good bags should be secured early in the season. The Waituna lagoon is said to be wellpopulated with grey duck’, and numbers are now gathering on the New River estuary, the Riverton estuary, Awnrua Bay, Lake George and the numerous riverbeds. Some paradise ducks were seen on the New River Estuary during the weekend, and this is said to be an unusual sight for that particular section of water.

It is expected thitt within a month the Gisborne trams will have ceased to operate (says the “Poverty Bay Herald”). The ehasses of the three new buses for the Borough C’ouucil arrived at Auckland last week, and the bodies are now being built. The first bus is expected to arrive in Gisborne within about a week, and should be ready for the road about a week later, while the other two should be really in time'to commence a complete service on* the Te Hapara route some time early in May. The council has not yet determined its road construction programme on the upper end ’of Gladstone Road, but it is anticipated that, once the trams are a thing of the past, .steps will be taken to tear up the track, commencing from Lytton road, and at the same time’ proceed with the work of creating a better road surface.