LARGE MOOSE SHOT
REPORT FROM PROSPECTOR HERD OF AXIS DEER SEEN LIBERATION MANY YEARS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] INVERCARGILL, Tuesday A well-grown cow moose was shot at the end of last month near Wet Jacket Arm by a young prospector, Mr. Martin, one of a party which was investigating the mineral wealth of tho territory bordering on Dusky Sound. Mr. Martin also reports that ho saw a herd ot axis deer in tho same locality. Wet Jacket Arm runs inland from the Acheron Passage, which links Dusky Sound with Breaksoa Sound. It wap only a few miles from tho spot where the moosp was killed that these giant members of tho elk family were liberated on February 24, 1910, and it was at Dusky Sound that five axis or spotted doer from East India woro liberated in March, 1909. Tho report concerning tho axis deer is particularly interesting, for, although it is more than 25 years since those woro liberated, definite information from stalkers has been most meagre. There wero approximately 12 animals in the herd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 14
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