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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 8

Mr N. J. Dolauiore has presented tile Southland Museum with an uncommon • exhibit in the shape of a pigeon snare. Mr Dolamore was probably the last white man to see pigeons so caught. The snare is made of split cabbage tree leaf and is in a good state of preservation. The method of using the snare was to provide a trough of" water on a dry ridge frequented by the birds. When the birds became accustomed to drinking at the trough the snare was set and the birds in bending down to drink were caught and killed. The birds did not seem to be scared by the dead birds already caught. 1 The Port Chalmers Golf Club has ! i iiecjuiivd new links oil the foothills 'hehind the township of Sawyer's Bay. 1 Bush and creek and cultivated paddocks are features of the picturesauo surroundings of the new nine-hole course. It has been laid out with tho t - assistance of one of Dunedin's professional golf experts, and in such a wav as to assure variety and provide interesting hazards. The pavilion from ihl old "Rock'' links has been removed to the new course and erected in a particularly picturesque nook near Resei " coir road. The new links are not yet officially opened, but are alreadv nrnv ing popular*