BIG GAME

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1929, Page 8

BIG GAME

WAPITI AND MOOSE. THE SOUTHLAND HERDS. WELLINGTON, August 12. The authorities recently communicated with the -Southland Acclimatisation Society on the question oi issuing licenses for taking wapiti and moose near Lake Te Anau during the coming season. It is understood that the society, is agreeable to the suggestion that two licenses be issued for the moose season. The fee, it is believed, is about £3O per license.

Referring to-day r to the issue of licenses, the Hon P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, said that, in conjunction with officers of the Department and the Acclimatisation Society, very careful consideration had been given to the number of licenses to be issued for the Wapiti, and the country' to be prospected. “The number of licenses proposed,” said the Minister, “ is the same as last year, three blocks with two licenses each, with the right to take two heads for each license. Last year the taking of stags with heads df not less than ten points was allowed, but this y'ear it is proposed to alter this to not less than twelve points. Licensees, however, are requested to shoot two cows.” A prospecting block suggested for wapiti was one which reached from the north arm of Lake Te Anau, on which there was reason to believe there is a head of wapiti, but the society did not feel warranted in charging a license fee for it until it had been prospected. In previous prospecting authorities, remarked Mr de la Perrelle, arrangements were made with the persons to whom prospecting licenses are granted ns to payment of a license fee in case n wapiti is shot, and. if the license fees are received, the distribution of the money should be the same as that received from stalking blocks, half to the Acclimatisation Society and half to tho Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.