DUCK SHOOTING.
TO the editor Sir, I was greatly pleased to sec the scathing letter, of "Unity of Control” in last Saturday’s issue. What sportsmanship there is in this wholesale slaughter of these helpless and beautiful birds, which have as good a right to enjoy their free life as those superior creatures who pursue them with such fiendish ingenuity, is beyond my comprehension. When 1 dT"' a - pictllre ot 11,0 ■’Opening of the Shooting Season ” • with dozens of birds strung up on a seailold and a gallant “ sportsman “ standing proudly at each side, gun in hand, 1 can only, vent my feelings of detestation with the words “ bloody butchery! ” I use the adjective in its proper sense, without any intent to be rude or offensive.—l am, etc., 0. Balk. Otago Tramping Club, April 23.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 17
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134DUCK SHOOTING. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 17
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