SHOOTING SEASON.
OPENS ON MONDAY
For the first time for a' long while the shooting season will not commence on Ist May, which is a Sunday. Anyone shooting game to-morrow will be liable to prosecution. Shooting is prfchibited until an hour before sunrise on Monday morning, but there will be many preparations for an early start, and sportsmen will be in their prepared positions on Lake Wairarapa and elsewhere long before daylight. It will be a chilly vigil, but ducks are reported to be plentiful on the lake. In view of the release of 700 pheasants by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society since last season, a few brace of these fine sporting birds may fall to the lot of the lucky ones. Quail are fairly numerous in certain districts, especially where the cover is good. The worse the weather on Monday, the better for sportsmen, and many are no doubt regretting that the storm did not ■ wait a day or two, as there is every indication of clear weather again for the opening. Misty, cold weather, with a high wind keeping the ducks low down, would give the guns the best opportunity. Fine weather for the opening will militate against big bags, and aB the ducks become very wild after a day or two, j sportsmen will pray for weather on Monday that would be anathematised by everybody else. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 6
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228SHOOTING SEASON. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 6
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