Nine sportsmen from Auckland and Hamilton, organised by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, secured between 300 and 400 shags on Sunday at* the head of Lake Waikare (says the., * , “New Zealand Herald.”) “It was not. merely for the pleasure of a . wholesale* * slaughter that we went on this trip,’” commented Air Clinton Savage, a-well-known Auckland sportsman, “but mom from a sense of duty, as the birds are*. * destroying the young trout in the Waikato and its tributaries. These shags are inland birds, and inland breeders, and cause far more destruction than the spotted shag, which has just been protected. It is only at this time of year that these birds are congregated in such ln r ge numbers in their rookeries, and we were consequently able to get quite r large bag.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 4
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