A NOVEL SPORT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 3

A NOVEL SPORT

HUNTING KANGAROOS BY. AEROPLANE.

SYDNEY, August 9

The fact that harassed landholders in New South Wales are now urging the Government to declare an open season for kangaroos in districts where they are a special menace because of their numbers, lends grim interest to a novel sport which was introduced to Australia not long ago by Mr Neil Stewart, the (prominent Sydney airman, and a young giant in physique, who met his death following an air crash in the Blue Mountains last week.

Stewart, one of the most likeable of men, by the 1 way, and claimed' to he one of Australia’s safest fliers, was one of a party who engaged in week-end kangaroo, hunts on an outbacjk .station property. Flying low, in open, level country, it was young Stewart’s job to round up the kangaroos from his ’plane, a Gipsy Moth. Others in the party followed them up .in a motor-car. If the slaughter were heavy—they bagged albout 100 kangaroos one day—the animals were given a fair sporting chance, for if their lives hung in the balance Stewart also had to take something of a sporting chance. His death in purely accidental circumstances —he lost his bearings in blinding, impenetrable fog while flying to Sydney with his wife—is one of the biggest blows private flying has received in Sydney.