NATIVE GAME.
CANTERBURY REGULATIONS. Press Association. Christchurch, April 10. Canterbury Acclimatisation Association passed the resolution :— ‘ ‘ That no device be used from which to shoot native game on Lake Ellesmere other than the legalised cylinder, scrub or msh'hut, mudhole or maimai, and that such device should not be set or used in water of greater depth than 24 inches, providing nothing in the regulations prevent shooting out of an undressed boat hidden in reeds growing along the shore of the lake or the use of a boat for the retrieving. That no live birds be used as decoys. That no persons put a greater number of decoys on an area of one hundred yards square than 25 or kill more than 200 head of native game in one year. It was explained in the discussion that the proposals have been framed to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of game that has jj) been going on for the past few years.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9118, 10 April 1908, Page 5
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158NATIVE GAME. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9118, 10 April 1908, Page 5
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