SHOOTING SEASON
CHOICE OF OPENING DAY PROTESTS FROM OPOTIKI [by telegraph—own correspondent] OPOTIKI, Monday Objections to the date, May 2, fixed for the opening of the shooting season were made at a special meeting of the Opotiki Rod and Gun Club. The president, Mr. J. McKaldon, said the season should be opened during the week-end. By opening it on a Monday a large percentage of shooting men would be penalised, and the big man who could take time off whenever he wished would have a clear week before the workers could get a weekend. A deputation was appointed to wait on Mr. A. G. Hultquist, M.P., to ask that the season be opened on Saturday, April 30. It was also decided to make other representations to Mr. Hultquist, including a request for a ranger for the southern Bay of Plenty, and for the release of 400 pheasants in the Opotiki district on closed areas. Another request was that hares should be classed as imported game, it being pointed out that poachers were using hare shooting as an excuse for shooting. The club lias decided to ask for the release of 2,500,000 fry in Opotiki streams.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 15
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195SHOOTING SEASON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 15
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