GAME IN THE DISTRICT

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 521, 9 April 1920, Page 2

GAME IN THE DISTRICT

PHEASANTS AND DUCKS.

1-AIRLY PLENTIFUI

THE PESTILENT POTHUNTER

Mr. H. 0. Haywood, chief ranger for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, and inspector of general fisheries (sea and inland), was in Puke'kohe to-day. In conversation with a "Times"' representative. Mr. Haywood saicl lie had paid a visit to the sanctuary at Pukekawa, and found that, on the river side of the sanctuary at any rate, pheasants were on the increase and doing well, and ducks were plentiful. In some places the wretched pothunter had been at work, shooting ducks, which, in consequence. a • already very wild. It is diffealt to catch these pothunters, thev being local people, shooting on their own property, and the country is so flat and treeless that an inspector cannot approach without being seen. However, a paragraph in the "Times'' in reference to these despicable unsportsmanlike persons came nude the notice of the ranger, and he intends to spend a week or two around certain areas—just for his "health's" sake. ——*