SHOOTING SEASON OPENS
Ducks Believed Plenfilul : Reports' from' various .* parts" of s Hawke's "Bay : indicate - that" the 19371 shooting - season bpened ffith- a - flourish early ' thx's5 morinng. ' Before; day-^hreak parties were *, at; their f avourite. haunts wjth loaded- shotguns. and their eyes searchiqg: the likely .coutxtry. for sudden ;flights,..of -ducks andr,swans. .In.most : parts' qf" HawWs' Bay "the early' morning' wns" i3eal' -for,f|his* spdrt;' tviih ibrigRt': mbonli^t-'untiF"&el Bun rose, ' ' (The' 'fasoin^tibh^uF.' tRe'" bpening; day ; of : the sHpotjngi: s,ea'soh: 'caught -a big . hixjnber » of - ; spo^men; ,in-; Hastings and ' the surrounding district®. this morning} . apd long/he'fore dawn- those -;men lqft 1 their 'wjirm beds,*, armed' themselves ; utith recently-cleaned guns,' plenty of ! a£atohn^6h'ahd.''inadeithbi^-' wdy* irx the • darkni^s. f toytheir ! previously-construct- ! ed ;mai-ma;i9. . - • - j.:1; - ;; ; : . . ; This yy'ear - thpy . were I.favoured -with quite • good , conditions, cousiderahly. better. .than, was the case last year, and .in.'addition 'there' was* a plentiful supply of birds. Though most of ' the parties are*:stiH out>"-enthixsiastic reports- have » been- teleplio'ned "to ' f H'ends aixd* relatives in town concerning-. the good ' "results of the outing. . • ' • • , : One party, .comprising five . gjuns, shoofing on the Valley Lake at Maraekakaho: secured a ^'bag" of'45, and reported that conditions were excellent and game plentiful.,- '-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 6
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