A STALKER’S BEQUEST.
FINE COLLECTION OF HEADS. WELLINGTON, January 27. A collection of some 20 stags’ heads—some of them representing the best “pointers’’ to be obtained in New Zealand —has been bequeathed to the Government by the late Mr Richard Barrer, of Kaipara Flats (Auckland), to be displayed for public exhibition. Arrangements are being made by the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. R. F. Bollard) for the collection of heads to be placed around the foot of the gallery of the Dominion Museum. The late Mr Barrer was an enthusiastic stalker. He obtained the stags’ heads in various parts of the Dominion. It ■was his aim. to get heads in different stages of growth, and he prepared short statements relative to each deer killed, together with (in many cases) photographs of the locality in which the animals were taken. Mr Bollard said it was proposed to have the information collected by Mr Barrer, together with the photographs, published in booklet form, and made available to the public.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 11
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168A STALKER’S BEQUEST. Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 11
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