SHOOTING SEASON

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 8

SHOOTING SEASON

GOOD BAGS AT OPENING. Limit bags are reported from a number of areas with the opening of the. shooting season on Saturday. There was generally good sport in all districts and this would probably improve over the week-end. Saturday was fine and calm, but the heavy rain of Saturday night and Sunday would make for more successful shooting. The Governor-General (Lord .Galway) and party are reported to have experienced some very successful shooting at Hunia Lake, on Major R. A. Wilson s property, Himatangi. . Pheasants were also shot in the Himatangi-llangiotu district, shooters reporting that good numbers were about. The bags of ducks were lighter in the Turakina district, higher up the Sportsmen in the Manawatu district had a very good day on Saturday said Mr T. Andrews, ranger of the Manawatu Acclimatisation Society. Heavy rain fell early in the morning but cleared after 9 a.m. Sportsmen who were shooting inland had better luck than those in the coastal area. Several limit bags were secured and game was most plentiful in the llangiotu district ; here every member of at least one party secured an excellent bag. Parties on the Manawatu River in some cases had a good day, indicating that ducks were becoming more numerous there. . . , A pavtv of six guns got 40 birds at Mr J. Callesen’s property at Ivarere on Saturday. Another party ot ny guns at Mr C. T. Keeble’s property at Fitzherbert is also reported to have shot 40 birds on the opening day. In the Woodville district conditions were fair for the opening of the .season. On Mr H. Houlbrooke s property nine guns took 50 birds on Saturday and 17 yesterday; Mr R. G. Smith and party on his property got Go birds on Saturday; on Mr W H. Nelsons lagoon limit bags were taken; and on Mr J. Holden’s property also the limit was obtained. IN LOWER RANGITIKEI. (From Our Own 'Correspondent.) 1 BULLS. May 6. The weather .conditions wero too calm and fine in Rangitikei for good bags to be secured, and sport on the whole was poor Heavy rain fell on Saturday night and early oil Sunday, and so those wl o remained out over the week-end .probably added to the opening day = tallies, nc turns reported on Saturday include the following:—Mr Russell Snnpson s party SK, 'lit* a 7 birds; Blanchards Lake, 4 guns, 5 birds. Waimangei Lake, 5 guns, 45 birds, 1 Lloyd Simpson and companion (on n'cr), 14 birds; Mr Ralfo and companion (Soft Take), limit; Mr W. W. Wilson and party (T ni-p Alice). 7 guns, 54 birds, Mi y* Mitchell got 6 birds on Lake Awamatc, and on Lake. Herbert one gun accounted (or 13 birds. '' ,