LAND AND WATER.
The Whitecliffs correspondent of the s Lyttelton Times stales that shags have mereabed in numbers in the district" since the Acclimatisation Society reduced the payment for fhags' heads from 2s 6d to Is each. Sportsmen 310 longer shoot them, and as many as 40 can b« seen " fishing " every morning in the Sehvyn River, about half a mile be-low the Whitecliffs bridge. Edward Weston, the world's champion walker, is celebrating his seventy -first birthday by walking from New York to San Francisco — a distance of 3400 miles — in a hundred days
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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 57
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94LAND AND WATER. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 57
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