DEERSTALKER'S FATE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24306, 22 June 1942, Page 2

DEERSTALKER'S FATE

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT PARTY'S ROUGH JOURNEY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sunday A deer-stalker was killed by a rifle shot; in the back near Gollan's Valley, in the Orongorongo Range, late this afternoon. He was: Mr. Wallace Arnold Knapp, aged 39*. of 35 Owen Street, Newtown. The accident is believed to be the first deer-stalking fatality this season. The party of police from Lower Hutt and Wellington who brought in the body to-night was faced with a rough journey over heavy, bush-clad hillsides for some four miles to the nearest road.

AIRMAN'S PORTRAIT DEERE CHOSEN AS TYPICAL (0.C.) WANG ANUI, Saturday In the art gallery of the British Air Ministry is the picture of a rugged, dare-devil airman arid underneath it is the title "The Man Who Won the Battle for Britain." When the Air Ministry commissioned its portraitartist to paint a picture of a member of the Royal Air Force who was typical of the men who fought the greatest epic of air warfare, the choice of a subject fell on Squadron-Leader Alan C. Deere, D.F.C. and bar, of Wanganui. He not only looks the part of the men who saved Britain in the nation's darkest hour, but his deeds have become almost legendary, and his adventures have been as fantastic as those of the hero of a movie serial.

SHORT SHOOTING SEASON FURTHER WELLINGTON PLEA (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Saturday Further efforts to secure a short shooting season are being made by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The chairman, Mr. D. J. Gibbs, said that the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, had been informed of the loss of revenue, £IOOO, that would result if no season were granted, a serious matter to a society that depended on shooting and fishing revenue for its existence. This mat'ter had not been placed before the War Cabinet when the request was first heard. Mr. Fraser had replied that the additional representations would bo brought before the War Cabinet.

Jf the season wore granted, it was stated, it would not affect the war effort here more than it had in England, where a shooting season had been granted, and efforts had been made to give overseas men in uniform sport by lending guns. The society had spent £'">.'s2 on the game farm upon the assurance of the Minister of Internal Affairs, the lion. W. E. Parry, that a sliort season would be held. MORE STATE HOUSES (0.C.) PUKEKOHE, Saturday A scheme providing for the erection of 13 more State houses in Pukekohe was provisionally approved at tins week's meeting of tlio Pukekohe Borough Council. FOOTBALLER INJURED A salesman, Nod Mitchell, aged 17, of 47 Napier Street, City, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Saturday afternoon with concussion suffered while playing in a League football match at Walker Park, Point Chevalier. His condition last night was not serious. PARCELS FOR BRITAIN (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Saturday "Gift parcels for civilians in the United Kingdom must not bo sent too frequently, otherwise they will bo confiscated in Great Britain," said the Postmaster-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb. The Minister explained that apparently some senders in the Dominion were ignoring this advice, because the Bi •itish Post Office had found it necessary to emphasise that gift parcels sent more than once a calendar month were liable to be seized. To avoid disappointment to the addressees as well as to themselves, persons in New Zealand posting such parcel# were strongly advised to hoed jthes® instructions.