THE SHOOTING SEASON
PROSPECTS IN WAIKATO GAME SAID TO BE PLENTIFUL [from our own correspondent] - HAMILTON, Tuesday Unsettled weather is reported to have had the effect of bringing duckshooting water in the aikato up to the usual levels and to have split up large flocks of duck, a good season thus being indicated. More than 2000 pheasants of good type were put out toward the end of last season and pheasants as a result are more plentiful than they been for some time. Quail are reported to he in fair number, with prospects best in the Kawhia district. _ Native game is plentiful in the King Country, it is said, and good sport is promised from both pheasant and quail.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 10
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119THE SHOOTING SEASON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 10
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