SHOOTING OUT OF SEASON.
Sir,—ls there any law against poaching? If so, it is quite a dead letter in this district. Every year about the beginning of March parties come to Te Aroha from Paeroa or Thames by the late Saturday evening's train, stay the night in Te Aroha, leaving during the small hours of Sunday morning, and shooting all the way down the river. For three successive Fridays a boat has been brought up the river and'left a few miW from To Aroha until Sunday morning, when a party of so-called "sports" walk to where it is left, and then shoot all the way down the river. The bag for one Sunday morning consisted of 60 ducks. Birds are very plentiful in the rivers now, owing to the dryness of the .swamps, and quite a large ban of half-fledged birds ma? be obtained with a good dog. £ think it is time a stop was put to the practice, so that true sportsmen may be protected against the unprincipled actions of a few selfish pot-hunters. .„ , , ~. , F. M. Strange. To Aroha, March 16.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13148, 10 April 1906, Page 3
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182SHOOTING OUT OF SEASON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13148, 10 April 1906, Page 3
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