NEW GAME BIRDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 6

NEW GAME BIRDS

PARTRIDGES FROM HUNGARY.

ACTION TAKEN IN THE NORTH. [By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.] AUCKLAND, March 17. With the object of improving the strain of the game partridges in its district the Auckland Acclimatisation Society is taking steps to import 300 pairs of Hungarian and 100 pairs of French or red-legged partridges from Hungary for liberation in its territory. It has commissioned Mr D. Roland, formerly of Te Aroha, who is personally acquainted with the district in Hungary from which these partridges are exported, to select the birds during a business trip he is shortly making to Europe and ship them from London or Southampton under the care of an emigrant whom the High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, is to be asked to depute. It is expected that it will cost about £SOO to land the birds in Auckland.

Local sportsmen will welcome the enterprise of the society in deciding to introduce a breed of bird which has a hjgh reputation on account of its excellent game qualities and which is much favoured by English sportsmen, many of whom visit Hungary regularly for the sport these partridges afford. Now that the campaign of extermination waged against the hawk has met with a' considerable measure of success in the Acclimatisation Society’s district, it is to be hoped that the attempt to acclimatise these birds will not end as unsatisfactorily as did the first. > " " ■■ —L