SHOOTING SEASON
-Own Correspondent.)
Rotorua and Taupo Areas
(By Telesranh—
ROTORUA, Last Night, Sportsmen should enjoy a good opefting of the game shooting season in the Rotorua and Taupo acciimatisatipn diatrictg next Tuesday morning, provided the weather is suiteble. Many are already making* preparations in the hope of sequring good bags, Reports from various parts of the district indiqate that birds have been observed qongregating in large numbers, and in some quarters the opjhion i* held that many of them have come from the Waikato, wher© the shooting season has already been opened. The liberations by the department have totalled in the vicinity of 450 birds, a considerable increase on last year's figures, when the department had great difficulty in procuring birds for its needs. The increase has been made possible by the establishment of the department' s own game farm on the slopes of the Ngongotaha Mountain, but, owing to the fafm not being completed until the breeding season was well advanced, the full benefit of it will not be felt by sportsmen until next season. In addition to the liberations already made, there are still about 800 young birds iq the pens at the farra, and they wijl be the first liberations for the 1938 season.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 4
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