Sport! Oh, Yes!
Some comments of Jay N. Darling (late chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, U.S.A.), which can apply to New Zealand:—
“No major sport in the world (with the possible exception of the wrestling' game) has suffered so much from abuses within as the time-honoured recreation of wild-fowling. The boys like it so well they’ve about ruined it “Speaking by and large, everything goes in the great conglomerate fraternity of those who take fish and game by fair means or foul. Nothing is barred. You may shoot out of season, exceed the bag limit, buy ducks of a bootlegger, bribe a game warden, have your Senator intercede with the judge and still be accepted in good sportsmen’s society. If you can carry home one bag limit in the open, hide a gunny sack full under the seat cushions and stuff another dozen in your spare tyres and get as far as the club ice-box with them, it’s heigh-ho and a great joke on the Fish and Game Department.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 39, 1 February 1936, Page 16
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171Sport! Oh, Yes! Forest and Bird, Issue 39, 1 February 1936, Page 16
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