WILD LIFE
| $ir-I think it high time someone ‘supported H, W. Endicott’s most sincere article on the preservation of game in | New Zealand. He was not, as has been interpreted by so many of your readers, | advocating a policy of laissez-faire in the multiplication of various species of game in New Zealand, He was trying to convey to us an idea of what a country is like from a sportsman’s point of view (and there are many hundreds in this country) when he must apply for a permit and compulsorily hire guides and outfits for the privilege of shooting only one buck per season. The greatest attraction this country has to offer to New Zealanders and travellers alike is its natural beauty and wide varieties of sport, including the hunting of numerous species of wild life. H. W. Endicott has already stated that we have animals common only to this country, Europe, and Asia. Surely this is something to be proud of and a privilege to preserve-not destroy. I would. suggest to F. K, Tucker that he re-read H. W. Endicott’s article and find out exactly what he was trying to tell us. From his opening paragraph an intelligent person could see that he was most sincere and that his writings merited not disgust, but rather some deep thought. F. K, Tucker talks about hunters as slaughterers glorying in the sight of fallen mobs. That is not our policy. We shoot for the thrill of a kill. It is useless to try to explain this feeling to a non-shooter, but it is common to ev hunter, The possibility of the "glorifying sight of slaughtered animals" would not be great enough incentive to tempt deer stalkers, in furtherance of their ideal, to hardships greater than those experienced by trampers. It is not an "industry" as Tucker suggests, but a sport-a man’s sport and right-something that should be recognised and preserved, not thoughtlessly destroyed. I would refer N. Atkinson to Endicott’s statement in which he said, "Once our prairies teemed with buffalocountless thousands . .. . once it looked as if they could never be cleaned out -but they are." This also could and will happen to our own herds unless some thought of conservation is given to the matter.
LOVER OF OUTDOOR
(Masterton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 5
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