Annual Report on the Red Deer and Native Game in the Wairarapa.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3015, 28 September 1888, Page 2

Annual Report on the Red Deer and Native Game in the Wairarapa.

In laying my annual report on the Red Deer in-the Wairarapa before the members of. the Acclimatisation Society, it affords mo great pleasure to be'-able to state that they are steadily on the increase, and spreading Oil the country they have not previously taken to, namely the high hills. whjch lie between the Maunga-1 raj 4 Range and the coast; als,q in the Lower Wairarapa on the ranges lying east of the Lake. There have been several fine Stags shot during the pasb season, que especially fine head on the Brancepeth property on theWainuiorariver,whiohwas shot byarabbitef named McPonald, in the employ'of Messiig Beotbatpi who has beeij acciistbmedtojtaik deer in the Highlands of Scotland, I bolieve it is tho: intontion. of Mr H. H. Beetbam to send it to the Melbourne Exhibition. .'': ; •'-.-:- : .■■'■;•-.■.:^•.".

I also beg to .draw the attention of the Society to two' subjects of .vital! importance, first, io the fact that i the month of'. April is too Boon to; open the season for native game, as a Icreatjnjmy young' Duc]ts ; are not in j full feaHTerT Tnu~fe m Caß,,CMy j prey to the shootei\ : whild from'iiy i ownobsevyatioii,aswell'as tbe;.tostimonyptmahy '.natives.!rthflpigpons are are;unfifc':f6r'hilimad'-f6od, atfd';{Lf6it j.f np doubt Mt; sjiobting;:tliflmfsb early, in Uio fi«ason ia: fast- tluiiuing out tljeiriiwoibarey |?ai]icl : : Nultinv;

iepioSSlM Juue qv .tliß fegmtting.of -J; |lielßopiety ; the r uuraber of. Shags'ni; the'||(a}Kuy' tue^'ffimn^ their roosts on,the shaggei'jea JPltUo Vicinity: of the AVaifafapa/I^ko^and folio wingv the c and'having/ filled maws,'they wend their way home iri : the evening. I< am confident that pur rivers can never become stooked with fish till some steps are taken-to reduce their numbers, and would recommend the payment of sixponco per head (or pair of feet) by the Society, for all Shags shot in. the district, also 'that some-person resident'in one" of, the Wairarapflf townships be authorised's byVlhe Society to pay therame. •„' \ „'-fi i Nat Aback, '> ?{{lJt '■.. ' ' Honorary Bang'er/l '■' Weriawhatiri,'A'ug. Brd,'jtßßßw [