SHOOTING SEASON OPENS ON TUESDAY
BIRDS FAIRLY PLENTIFUL The shooting: season opens next Tuesday, and prospects are reported to be bright. This year the season for the Auckland acclimatisation district will be shorter, with the object of preserving the game, especially the grey duck, which during the past few years has been considerably depleted. Regulations recently gazetted limit the season for pheasant and quail to two months and the season for native game to six weeks, in place of the usual three months for both imported and native game.
The Department! of Internal Affairs intended to restrict the "bag” to 10 ducks a day with the combined "bag” not exceeding 25 birds, but it has been decided to continue the old regulations limiting the combined “bag” to 25 birds, which may all be ducks. It is prescribed that not more than nine cock pheasants be taken in one day.
One of the several new regulations which will be enforced this year is that any person who claims a stand for the purpose of taking or killing imported or native game must first obtain a licence of authorisation, and must affix to a stake planted on the stand a board containing his name and address and the number of his licence. Another regulation prohibts the use of power-driven boats of any description for “driving, chasing, frightening, or stalking” any game, but it is still permissible to use power-driven boats for camping purposes, or for travelling to and from a rendezvous, or to shoot from a moored power-driven boat.
The Auckland Acclimatisation Society is liberating about 400 young mallard ducks, mostly in the Rangiriri swamps. Pheasants, quail and ducks are reported to be fairly plentiful, and there are large numbers of ducks at Waikato Headsu
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 12
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