Sport in New Zealand.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1903, Page 2

Sport in New Zealand.

PISHING AND SHOOTING REGULATIONS. ,

The Government are apparently alive to the importance, in such a colony as New Zealand, of having good trout-fishing, and also of catering for those who prefer the gun to the rod. At present the trout-fishing season is from the Ist October to the end of April, and it is now proposed to shorten the sea* son by making it olese on the 15th April, because it has been found that towards the end of April the fish are generally full of spawn It is also intended to have a uniform license of £1 available all over the eolony, and to change the sheeting season for deer. In future this season will start on the Ist March and end on the 30th April. It is also intended to alter the system of issuing licenses in well-stocked districts. £1 licenses will be issued enabling the holder to take four beads, and there will also be available £lO licenses, enabling (the holder to take eight heads. This latter will no doubt meet the requirement of sportsmen from England and other distant countries, many of whom now travel tlftusands of miles for the New Zealand fishier and deer-stalking, and who, beafror advertising the colony, spend considerable sums of money in it. In newly-stocked districts the number of heads to be taken will be limited to two, and a limit will also be imposed in regard to the number of licenses to be issued. No ono will be allowed to shoot any stag less than a ten-pointer, and in regard to fallow deer sportsmen will be supposed to confine themselves to heads that are well matured. Sir Jose oh Ward, who to-day received a deputation of delegated representativee of the Acclimatisation Societies, showed a .disposition to do all he could in the interests of the acclimatisation of game and fish in New Zealand.