HUNTING BIG GAME
GOOD SPORT IN BURMA. Calcutta, April 30. According to an official report, Burma is the sportsman’s paradise. Last year 492 tigers were killed, the largest num--her being at Myitkyina, while of 1200 leopards killed last year, most of them wore at. Thayetmyp. /So much damage .was done by large carnivora that people were anxious, to kill, reward or no reward. . Nearly 400 elephants were captured last year, including over 90 tuskers. Commander Dyott, a famous Amazon explorer, has arrived at Calcutta from Assam, where he took. thousands of feet of .film, a talking . picture,. qctuQlJy.,being made pf tigers, devouring tJieiXt.kiHs*. =
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 6
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