BIG GAME

Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 13

BIG GAME

WAPITI AHD MOOSE SHOOTING [SPXCUi TO THE ‘ STAK.’] ■WELLINGTON,' August 12. Tho authorities recently communicated with the Southland Acclimatisation Society on tho question of issuing licenses for taking wapiti and moose near Lake Te Anau during the forthcoming season. It is understood that the society is agreeable to the suggestion that two licenses be issued for the moose season. Tho fee. it is believed, is in the vicinity of £3O per license. Referring to-day to the issue of li■emses, the Hon. P. A. do la Perrelle t Minister of Internal Affairs) said i hat the officers ol the department and die Acclimatisation Society, had given very careful consideration to the number' of licenses to be issued for wapiti, and the country to be prospected. “ The manlier of licenses proposed,” said the Minister. “is the same as last year—three blocks, will two licenses each, with the right to take two heads for, each license. Last year the taking of stags with heads of not less than fen points was allowed, but this year it is proposed to alter this to not less than twelve points. The licensees, however, arc requested to shoot two cows.”

A prospecting block suggested for wapiti was one reached from the north arm of Lake Te Anau, on which there was reason to believe that there is a herd of wapiti, but the society did not feel warranted in charging a license fee for it until it had been prospected. As in previous prospecting, remarked Mr de la Perrelle, arrangements were made with the persons to whom the prospecting licenses were granted as to the payment of a license fee in case wapiti wore, shot-, and if license foes were received, the distribution of the numev should be the same as that roreccivcd from stalking blocks—half to the Acclimatisation Society, and half to the Department for Tourist and Health Resorts.