BIRD SANCTUARY
BEAUTIFUL POUNUI LAKE. Hidden away among the hills eastward of Onoke Lake, in the Lower Wairarapa Valley, but within fairly easy walking distance of the road, is a beautiful lake known as Pounui, on the property of Mr Norman Matthews. This scenic gem has its southern and northern sides bordered by a thick growth of manuka and lighter shrubs but at the western end, where several arms reach towards the Rimutakas, there is an area of almost virgin forest. It is in this haven, which Mr Matthews has maintained as a bird sanctuary for the past thirty or forty years that many thousands of ducks and some hundreds of black swans seek refuge a day or two before the opening of the shooting season. Human visitors to Pounui are few and far between but those who are privileged to .make an acquaintance with this lake during th> first week or so of the shooting season are rewarded with a sight that will be remembered for ever. Anything between four and five thousand ducks are usually to be seen there early in May. The ducks remain there during the day and at night visit the lower reaches of Wairarapa Lake and Onoke Lake to feed, returning to Pounui before daylight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)
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211BIRD SANCTUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)
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