THE SHOOTING SEASON.
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SOME GOOD BAGS. So far this season ten shooting licenses have been issued in Pahiatua. Ducks are said to be plentiful in the Waipukurau district. The best bags reported so far art', one of thirty-five, which fell to two guns, onu of thirty, one gun for two days, and a noth: r of twenty-nine to two guns. Shooting parties at the Waira.rapa hike last week, returned home with large bags of game—-mostly swans and ducks. Messrs H. Feast and A. B. Balfour secured 75 swans, and several pairs of ducks, ami Mefisre Hodge (2) and Leppien, 50 swans, several ducks, and a number of swan’s eggs. Tile Manawatu correspondent of the Farmers’ Union Advocate, writing on the shooting season, says: Ducks, and apparently all game, got scarcer and scarcer. Pukekos, which usi d to flutter about in thousands iwre getting almost gone altogether, and it is a rare thing to see them at all. Californian quail, too, have vanished, but in this instance the rats and cats are probably the cause. Pheasants, are very rarely heard, and still ferquently' less scon. Partridges are non cst, and even ground game is scarce. Pigeons mi® never seen except away in the bush, and there they are simply mowed down.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4226, 8 May 1912, Page 3
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216THE SHOOTING SEASON. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4226, 8 May 1912, Page 3
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