With Wapiti
VERYTHING about "Wapiti Country" was right, from the typical voices of outdoor men to refreshingly civilised attitudes, Love of the life for its own sake permeated the programme, and though I find it hard to believe that anyone could miss Fiordland when away, this is not the only time I have heard it. Ken Miers and Frank Tully gave plenty of fact for the mind to fasten on, and the first indication of pleasant philosophy was the remark that it was like going fishing; there was always some fool who wanted to catch fish. Through listener-shared diversions such as burning off sandflies we came ‘to what each thought his most felt experience. These again were not the excitement of the hunt; for one, watching wapiti on a fiver-flat at close quarters, for the other, camp and sleep after days in the rain. Though both looked forward to time, place, weather and record -wapiti bull coming together, what I re‘member most is that one said, "To see him standing on the bluff above you, giving forth, is enough, whether you shoot him or not." This rounded off, with the more than impressive bugling, a ‘seemingly casual, but well prepared | programme,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 20
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201With Wapiti New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 20
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