TENNIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1926, Page 3

TENNIS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, March IG. The Lawn Tennis Association decided it is undesirable for players engaged in the manufacture and sale of racquets anil balls should be selected to represent the country in international matches and competitions.

Owing to the very severe winter ot 1925 the red deer in the Hanmer region have not yet “shed the velvet.' and the shooting season will be approximately ’three weeks Liter than last year. A stalker who has returned to Christchurch from Hanmer. where the Forestry Department is paying 2s a tad for deer, which ate outlawed, says that the largest heads are in the Waiau Valley, and a twenty-four-point mal-formed head was secured there quite recently. Owing to the extensive shooting at Lake Tennyson last year, there are not so many deer as usual now. hut the country should be well stocked by the roaring season. The greatest number are at the Rainbow, where dose on 200 have lately been counted in twelve miles of country. It is understood that the M man Valley and the Lake Tennyson country have licett declared a tourist resort, and that no free shooting will be allowed there this year, but the Rainbow is still free country', and the rifles will he heard there this Easter, when the “roaring season ’ gives the stalkers a elite as to the whereabouts of their quarry. Salmon are starting to run in the Hurunui. and there are thousands of paradise ducks ' up the Clarence river, especially towards Lake Tennyson and the Serpentine.