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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4806, 5 July 1939, Page 4

From the points of view of local and visiting sportsmen to this territory for the shooting season now about to close, the sport in the Northern King Country has been well up to best averages in previous seasons. While no sensational bags of any particular kind of game have been recorded, average shots have enjoyed many limit and near-limit daily bags of grey duck, pheasant and Californian quail. On the whole, duck shooters are reported to have done better than field shooters. Grey duck are well maintaining their population on account of the dry summer that made them use waterways and streams as feeding grounds, thus preventing mass destruction by shooters from fixed positions. Californian quail bags of outstanding dimensions have invariably been secured from the back country, where most of the best pheasant shooting was also obtained. Shootists predict an increased number of game next season, providing the territory is again favoured with a suitable breeding period.