THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
official measurements taken at the Exhibition of British Deer Heads by 
Rowland Ward. 
In the following table I give measurements of four of the most remark- 
able Otago heads killed some years ago, and those of ten heads killed 
during the last few years, which are worth recording either as the best 
heads of the year or for some exceptional feature. 
Owner. 
Points. 
Length. 
Beam. 
Span. 
Spread. 
Date. 
Locality. 
H. E. Hodgkinson 
6X6 
46 
51 
371 
1901 
Dingle. 
Melville Gray 
6X6 
46 
51 
31 
— 
1901 
Timaru Creek. 
C. D. Hodgkinson 
7X7 
44J 
51 
331 
— 
1901 
Dingle. 
H. E. Hodgkinson 
17 
41 
51 
31 
— 
— 
Baron von Kusserov 
18 
41 
5f 
— 
38 
1908 
Hunter Valley. 
J. Forbes 
6X7 
45 
— 
— 
1909 
P. F. Hadow 
6X7 
45 
51 
— 
401 
1910 
J. Forbes 
6X7 
49i 
5 
— 
321 
1911 
>» J> 
Makarora. 
J. Faulks 
20 
40 
6 
— 
— 
1911 
A. Cowie, junr. 
19 
38J 
5 
— 
29 
1911 
Hunter Valley. 
G. E. Lucas 
7X7 
43£ 
51- 
30 
— 
1912 
G. E. Lucas 
7x7 
43 
5 8 
32J 
— 
1912 
J. Faulks 
7X7 
42 
51 
— 
50 
1912 
Makarora. 
E. G. Studholme 
6X6 
43 
5? 
— 
— 
1913 
Hunter Valley. 
Of the fallow deer in New Zealand I cannot speak from personal experi- 
ence as I have never hunted them there. They are plentiful on the Blue 
Mountains near Tapanui in Otago and on the Maungakawa range in the 
Waikato, Auckland Province, in the North Island. On the beautiful island 
of Motutapu in the Hauraki Gulf close to Auckland there are about a thou- 
sand head of fallow deer. This island is private property. A herd has been 
established at Albury near Timaru, South Canterbury, with stock obtained 
from Motutapu, and there are also fallow deer on the Lower Wanganui on 
the Totara Flat near Hokitika and at the head of Lake Wakatipu,in addition 
to an old-established herd in the Nelson Province. These are all in the 
South Island. 
The progenitors of the Maungakawa herd, to illustrate the difficulties of 
transport in New Zealand in the ’seventies, “ had to be taken a two days’ 
voyage in a small paddle steamer up the swift and flooded Waikato River 
to the head of navigation, then loaded on sledges and carted a thousand 
feet up a steep and slippery mountain range. A cavalcade of Indians accom- 
panied the sledges, dismounting to give assistance to the drivers in the 
worst places, and asking many curious questions concerning the strange 
animals. They looked on them as magnified goats, but conceived that they 
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