THE SHOOTING SEASON.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent W. W. Smith certainly knows what he is talking about. Ho is quite right in saying the shooting season should not begin before May. There are a great number of young ducks not full feathered in the month'of April. There are more ducks killed in the month of April, than all the rest of the season put together. The young ducks have not parted from the old ones at this time, and generally having little or no rain at this time, the lagoons and ponds are almost dry, and consequently the young ducks fall an easy, victim to the larrikin and pothunter. It Is to be deeply regretted that the acclimatisation societies have not stirred in the matter. If they took half the trouble about the game they do about the trout, they certainly would have done so.—l am,' etc., SPORTSMAN.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12157, 22 March 1900, Page 2
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150THE SHOOTING SEASON. Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12157, 22 March 1900, Page 2
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