SHOOTING BIRDS AT LAKE TAKAPUNA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9180, 9 October 1888, Page 3

SHOOTING BIRDS AT LAKE TAKAPUNA.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —At the last meeting of the Acclimatisation Society it was settled to ask the Government to open the rivers of the North Island (within our jurisdiction) to trout fishing. It was also proposed to ask Government to stop the shooting of seabirds, but this was not carried. At our next meeting I shall propose that we ask Government to stop all shooting within one mile of Lake Takapuna. On the borders of the Lake we have now a number of bittern and large numbers of tuis in the bush, and also so-called teal and native duck on the Lake. Then we are promised a number of white swans, if they can be caught, and, I believe, some English wild ducks could be supplied by the Acclimatisation Society, if we had security that they would not be shot. Now, no doubt the question will be aeked, how is it you are in favour of stopping the shooting at the Lake after having opposed the late Mr. Hurst in doing so ? And my answer is, I should never have opposed Mr. Hurst had he not tried to make out that the Lake belonged to him, and done all in his power to prevent its being the moat popular resort of the Auckland people.—l am, etc., Edwin , Harrow. Buona Vista, Lake Takapuna.