DUCK SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 63, 15 March 1934, Page 19

DUCK SHOOTING

\%AfeE WAIRARAPA CLOSED

:■ .As a result of representations,; made by a deputation op landowners on) th^ shores of Lake Wairal'a pa, the Wellington, Acclimatisation Society last evening decided,to close the area for im-1 ported and native game. Members of the deputation said that ducks and swans around the lake were decreasing very rapidly, and the settlers in the district were anxious that the area should be closed.' If the .society would not take the action re"-<jueStedj--the settlers proposed to take th.d^matter- to the Minister of Internal Affairs, •■aiid''if the Minister' turnedthem dowu th'eJi-Ttlie settlers would close their propertierViftfa' prevent all'shooting. WithY t'wWMj.xceptioiis, 'all. the settlers in'the" district were in favour of elbsing ■;the- : ;fl,x;pa,;aiid the two who were not in:-i'av^ii: explained that they had already :VarrSjigiia: for parties to use their propei-tios this year, and felt that they -could: i&t\bj.'eak the .arrangement. . '.^J-i, 4?':■;■.'■•.-. ' The chairman H-'iifecouncil (Dr. G. F. Alison) said-VjeT-wpiild like to remove any impressioW^tnat the members of the council wereHU- any way antagonistic to the yiewls expressed by the members of thftrfdeputation. As a matter of fact, thete-6unc.il was right behind the deputatid/ii It was only the people who lived?in the district who were able to give the council an accurate presentation of the facts of the case. •'■'"• . Mr.- F. Dyer said that, a similar problem had arisen in North " Canterbury iv the case of Lake El'lesmere. The duck in that district were decreasing very rapidly. . . . :° : Mr. R, H. ]«mmo expressed therappieeiation of shooting niea of the help that the settlers had given .-them, for many years past, and he moved that the request of, the deputation should be accfeded to. ..' Mr. F. G. Brockctt seconded the mo.tiou, ■ which was carried unanimously.- /