DROWNING A DEER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 136, 1 August 1941, Page 5

DROWNING A DEER

ONE-ARMED MAORI'S FEAT INCIDENT AT TE TEKO The absence of 303 rifles since the commandeer of these Aveapons by the Military Authorities, lias resulted in sportsmen resorting to many and Aaried means for securing their game. But the feat of a one-armed Maori of T'e Teko Avho flung himself bodily on a deer and droAvned it by the simple expedient of holding its head under Avater Avill probably go down as the piccc-de-resistance of the present season, Avhen Aveapons and ammunition are at such a premium. The story goes that Messrs W. Waikato and Rangi Raki Averc oiu,i hunting pigs in the back country Avhen their dogs trailed three large deer Avhich broke coA T er and made across some bracken for another patch of bush. The tAVO men folloAVed as fast as their horses could negotiate the difficult country, and found that the dogs had cornered one deer, a Avell-groAvn doc in a stream Avhich, ran through the dense bush. Rangi Raki, aa'lio is an active a\ t cll built man in spite of the fact that he has but one arm, threw himself from his horse on to the animal and Avitli his single arm thrust its head into a rocky pool Avherc it droAvned. The huntsmen arrived home Avell loaded with venison and claim that they are the first 'in this district at am r rate to secure a full-groAvn deer Avithout either gun or knife.