DISAPPOINTING END

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 4

DISAPPOINTING END

DUCK SHOOTING SEASON SMALL WEEK-END BAGS Sportsmen in the Gisborne district were disappointed in the week-end. which marked the closing of the 1947 duck-shooting season. During the past three weeks, the weather has not been particularly favourable for duck-shooters, but some reasonably good bags were obtained on the opening week-end. Since then little shooting has been done by sportsmen, in the hope that the ducks would return to their lake haunts. When last Saturday morning dawned overcast and wet, sportsmen expected limit bags. However, on both the Repongaere and Tiniroto lakes the ducks had been flying high, and some

vcettiimmiistiiiiiiiiimiHiiiiHiiiiitiiutfiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiitiN* sportsmen returned home with only a brace of ducks to show for their morning vigil. Pheasant and other game shooting in the East Coast Acclimatisation Society’s area is now to commence in earnest, and as a large number of birds were liberated by the society this season good shooting is expected for ,the remainder of the shooting season. The lack of ammunition has been restricting local sportsmen in their shooting activities. A further supply of ammunition was expected to arrive from Auckland recently but, to date, this has not come to hand, nnazliv de’ R-ndwtic