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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 69

“ In addition to being a good shot, you need a good dog,” said an Auckland sportsman who sampled the delights of duck shooting on the opening day with a fair amount of success. Twenty years ago one of the favourite duck shooting grounds within fairly handy range of the city was the winding reaches of the Kaipara River in the vicinity of Ohirangi. One of the most successful gatherers of ducks was an elderly foreigner, whose sole equipment on the opening day of the season was a sack. He owned a black retriever dog, which had more than a local reputation. A dead or ' wounded duck was unerringly retrieved and brought to the bank, thence to the bag. The dog ‘was also highly skilled at locating catches of dead ducks planted by sportsmen, and at looting slyly and silently a sportsman’s (tame bag the animal had no equal.