"BEATS ALL OTHERS"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 10

"BEATS ALL OTHERS"

N.Z. AS SPORTING LAND.

Much has boon written of New Zealand by persons who have paid it the most cursory of visits, but that will not be the ease with Dr. M'Lean Inglis, who will embody the impressions of a tour of the Pacific Islands and New Zealand in a book he is writing. A. keen sportsman, he has shot and fished the world over, from big game to button quail,, and after a motor tour of the North Island, chiefly a fishing expedition, he is resting in Wellington before making for Russell for swordfisli. This English visitor has taken par/ in expeditious in many lands, but he is (irmly of opinion thai as* a sporting country New Zealand "has them ml beaten" for accessibility and variety of sport. He has secured a stalking block in the Landsboro district of South Westland, and wili thus be able to write with, knowledge of the New Zealand red doer. "I was told that I would not find'Now Zealand as interesting as it was made out to be," he told a Post reporter, "but it;is qnjte the other way. Prom (he geological and botanical'points of view alone it would be worth while. It is one of the most wonderful countries I have ever visited. I have mdt a great many people away from the towns, and I must say that the help and kindness offered me might fie weti copied by some other British colonies. I am greatly impressed by the sterling work being done by farmers in the face of iJUlictilties. As for your trout fishing, it is .unique." 'Dr. fnglia has his own idea or what constitutes sporting tackle for big fish, and if he is successful at Russell it will be with lighter .equipment thau that of some other visitors. Altogether he will speud nearly a year in the Dominion.