MOOSE AND WAPITI

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1926, Page 4

MOOSE AND WAPITI

RIG GA M E 11 ENTER’S EXPEDITION. WELLINGTON. .March 0. "In toriv years there will still he Polar hears in the Arctic regions, but there is no'doubt that by that time all the present fa minis big game countries will he '.slab out.’ Here in New Zealand you have in South Wcslland .some marvellous country, which is ideal for big

game and apparently useless lor anything else. II acclimatisation is properly carried out. New Zealand will soon attract keen and wealthy spoilsmen from all over the world.’’

The above views were expressed by Air Theodore R. Ilubbaek. of Pahang, Federated Malay States, a moled author of books on big game hunting, who is al present in Wellington. Mr Ilubbaek has come to New Zealand with the object of exploring (lie little-known regions of the fiord country in Soul h Westland and investigating the present numbers and conditions of the wapiti deer imported from the Fnitcd Stales and liberated at George Sound in 1904. ami the moose imported from Canada and liberated at Supper Cove in 1009. Air Hublmek has hunted mouse, and his "Ten Thousand .Miles to Alaska in Search of Afoose." and “To Far Western Alaska lor Big Game" describe his experiences in this connection.

To a reporter .Mr Ilubbaek explained that moose cows usually had two calves a season and bred when four or live years old. He gathered that the conditions in the Slipper Cove region were eminently suitable for those animals, and after seventeen years one would expect to find a large 'herd there. Air Ilubbaek will he accompanied on Ids expedition in Sooth AVestlaud by .Messrs E. Ilardcastle, V . Scott and R. Steele, of Rotorua, and about a month will he spent in i lie locality.