FIRST CHAMOIS SHOT
SPORT AT MOUNT COOK. The first cliamoi3 to be shot under licence in New Zealand fell to Mr R. L. Wiglcy, managing director of the Mount Oook Motor Company, Ltd., in the Moupt Cook region on May 14. In 1907 eight chamois wore presented to the New Zealand Government by the Emperor of Austria in exchange for a number of characteristic New Zealand birds —kiwi, weka, lcakapo, and kea—and liberated at Mt. Oook. Since then, thriving on the scanty mountain grasses and roaming the Alps, sometimes across passes at a height of 7000 ft., tho chamois have increased to such an extent that this year licences for stalking them have been issued. It is peculiarly fitting that first blood should go to Mr Wigley, whose influence in this district goes back tothc time when he started the first motor service to the Hermitage the year before the chamois S'cre introduced-
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6918, 25 May 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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153FIRST CHAMOIS SHOT Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6918, 25 May 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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