FINE WAPITI HEADS
SPORTSMAN’S SUCCESS LAKE TE ANAU DISTRICT DUNEDIN, June 2. Having completed his seventh trip into the wapiti country at the back of Lake Te Anau, Mr. K. Sutherland, of Wairarapa, arrived in Dunedin yesterday with two fine 15-point heads, the larger of which was 53in. long, 48in. wide, and Ilin, round the horn. Mr. Sutherland said the increasing numbers of shooters working the western shores of Lake Te Anau had had the result of driving the wapiti back toward the West Coast, and he had been compelled to strike well into the high country, which had not previously been touched, in order to secure his heads. During his stay on the block he saw some 13 wapiti, but was struck by the fact that there were very few calves, his opinion being that the cows were too fat to breed. He was convinced, however, that the wapiti were still plentiful in the less accessible valleys toward the coast.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 10
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