SPORT TROPHIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 14

SPORT TROPHIES.

EXHIBITION IN STRAND WINDOWS THAR STALKING. (From Oob Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 21. Mr ap Rogers, an English sportsman in New Zealand, has sent to the High Commissioner’s Department an interesting collection of trophies which have fallen to his gun and rod. These consist of a black marlin head mounted on. a bracken, a marlin bead, two mabo sharks’ jaws, the head of a make shark stuffed, two boars’ heads, and two specimens of the pilot fish preserved in spirits. It is the wish of Mr ap Rogers that the black marlin’s head should be lent to the British Empire Club, and that it should he placed on one of the walls of the club house in St. James’s square. The remaining specimens have been appropriated by the Publicity Section of the High Commissioner’s Office for exhibition purposes, and are now being shown in one of the windows in the Strand, where they arc attracting a great deal of attention. The other window of New Zealand House is at present being used for exhibiting a series of dioramas which have been lent by the Imperial 'lnstitute, These dioramas, which have been a great attraction in the New Zealand Court at the institute, are being shown in turn. An Alpine scene was the first to be exhibited, then one showing the geysers, the hot springs and Maori life; and now there is on view a beautiful reproduction of the Wanganui River, with fishermen plying their rods. THAR AND CHAMOIS. In the Field of November 16 there is a picture of what is reported to be the first fliar shot under license in New Zealand. Mr G. D. MTbraifh, writing from Christchurch, explains that he shot this animal on the Seaby Range in the Mount Cook district in May last. He adds: “ Indian sportsmen will probably be interested to know that these animals, which wore imported from the Himalayas in 1904, are doing very well indeed in their new home, and from now on should afford excellent stalking. Chamois are also well established in the same locality as the thar, although they apparently do not care to range together, but are to be found within a few miles of each other. So British sportsmen, visiting this country for the fishing and deer stalking, can now secure thar and chamois stalking by extending their trip for another month.”