HUNTING IN YUKON

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 68, 14 December 1937, Page 8

HUNTING IN YUKON

Mr R. W. Dalrymple Returns From Alaskan Trip LARGE MOOSE SHOT Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 13. From hunting moose, caribou, bears, wolves and mountain goats in the fastnesses of Alaska, Mr. K. AV. Dalrymple, chairman of directors of the Rangitikei Co-openrtive Dairy Company, Limited, returned to New Zealand by the Niagara to-day. For three months he stalked game in the Yukon beyond Point Selkirk up the Pelly River. As a member of a party of four hunters, Mr. Dalrymple made the trip into the interior on foot, dogs being used to carry the packs of equipment in much the same manner as horses are utilised for transport in rugged sections of bush country in New Zealand. For the summer season, the weather wlis bitterly cold, and, with the party seeking only first-class trophies, the long periods of careful stalking were a tax on the endurance. Mr. Dalrymple said the party’s patience was rewarded by several excellent trophies, one large moose that was shot possessing an antler spread of G3in., and another also being a magnificent specimen. Two bears and a wolf were brought down.