IMPORTED GAME
ACTIVITIES IN OTAGO
(By Telegraph.) (Special U "Tin Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, Bth February; The Otago. Acclimatisation Society is still considering the importation of chukor and English pheasant. The chukor (or shakar) experiments have at various times . given trouble. The last shipment from Calcutta did not carry well, for of the forty shipped only eight were landed, butethese eight are doing well on the society's Waitatifarm, arid it is now held that they acclimatise well and breed in captivity. The earlier ill luck with chukor was due solely to the difficulties of transit. The chukor is really a big partridge, .excellent .for table purposes. As to the.pheasants, the reports from Waitati are highly encouraging. From a tspek of twenty-five hens and seven or eight cocks, there are already eighty chickens this season, and about 100 three months old birds are to arrive next week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 14
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