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Show Bill Tribole Featured In New Zealand Paper (Following is a reprint of a feature news story appearing appear-ing in the "Weekly News," published at Auckland, New Zealand. The article was published pub-lished in the issue of April 12, and tells of Bill Tribole's visit to the South Pacific island). An American trooper, given a few hours' leave when a convoy con-voy called at Port Nicholson in 1942, asked a favour of a stranger stran-ger in the streets of the capitol. He gave his name and home address ad-dress and asked that his relatives rela-tives be informed that he had passed through. That request led to a friendship friend-ship which has lasted through the years. The ex-G I, now Mr. Charles W. Tribole ("My friends call me Bill"), of Milford, Mil-ford, Utah, United States of America, has just completeda two months vacation in New Zealand, during which he fished and hunted, and renewed the acquaintanceship so informally infor-mally commenced in Wellington eight years ago. Mr. Tribole's annual leave from his position as conductor on the Union Pacific Railroad is invariably spent hunting or fishing. Last year he traveled by jeep to Alaska, covering 8,000 miles on a hunting expedition. expe-dition. He has always desired to hunt in New Zealand and Weekly News illustrations of rainbow trout, deer and wapiti eventually proved such a lure that a little over a month ago he flew to the Dominion where, for several weeks, he hunted deer, wild pigs, wild goats, and cast a cunning fly in several North and South Island trout streams. Wet weather dogged him from Christchurch, through the Lewis Pass, to Queen's Point in search of deer, and although several fine stags were seen the weather prevented an apr proach or kill being made. Several Sev-eral smaller stags were killed, however. Rainbow Trout A Revelation In these few weeks Mr. Tribole Trib-ole saw more of the two islands than most New Zealanders see in a lifetime. In the Urewera, accompanied by Messrs. E. and R. Johanson of Wellington, and guided by Mr. Tomate Cairns, the American visitor shot pigs and was initiated into the haz- ards of bailing and sticking wild boars. "That sport is indeed a thriller," thrill-er," Mr. Tribole said, "and I am sure it would prove an attraction at-traction to American sportsmen. sports-men. Wild-pig hunting without with-out license fees, too should be more widely publicised. Say, those pig dogs! Every shape, colour and breed, sometimes all found in the one animal. How they can point and bail a pig without training!" ' Several red deer were shot in j the Urewera, mostly small f Continued on Back Page HERE'S MORE ABOUT Tribole Continued from Page One heads, but they provided fine sport. Mr. Tribole's first ex- ably see here another profitable line of exportable produce live rabbits, by the million. Last week Mr. Tribole called at the office of the Weekly News is search of a year's subscription. sub-scription. During the eight years since his first brief visit (he merely walked around Oriental Ori-ental Bay on that occasion) the stranger who became his friend has posted bundles of The Weekly News to Utah. Now Mr. - Tribole feels that he would like his own paper, received perhaps a little earlier than he has been receiving them previously. In his home town Mr. Tribole presents pre-sents his much-read and outdated out-dated copies of his paper to his friends and to the town library ' and he feels that as a result the citizens of Milford are as well informed about New Zealand as any in the United States. By G. W. of America, but there, as in almost al-most every part of the North American continent, license fees are costly to the outsider. The deer stalking season is ten days' duration, a license may cost S50, and one stag only is the limit bag. To shoot a doe is not only a cardinal sin against the ethics of hunting, but what is probably a greater deterrent to hunters, an offence against very strict game laws. Stag-shooting Stag-shooting comes fairly expensive in the United States. Animals are not plentiful and a hunter may spend the ten days of the season without sighting a single sin-gle stag. It astonished Mr. Tribole to learn that the New Zealand government employed full-time professional cullers to exterminate deer. In some States of America rabbits are scarcely known and in others are protected by local game laws, licenses and limit bags being imposed. Farmers in Central Otago could prob- perience with a rainbow trout j in the Whakatane River was a revelation and a delight. Using a 5 oz. rod and light tackle, his first cast raised a rainbow "of about 4 ibs." That the fish made off with fly and some yards of line was no so much a disappointment as a challenge to land one of the monsters in the river. Eventually, a 7V-pounder 7V-pounder was caught on the Ohi-kanui Ohi-kanui River, meticulously measured meas-ured and photographed with movie camera "just to prove to the folks back home that I did not imagine it." A sidelight on his Urewera hunt was an impromptu concert in the visitor's honour by the pupils of a Maori school tucked away in the forest and hills. Pois, hakas and stick games were eagerly performed and traditional Maori songs were sung. "Those kids could not sing a note out of tune if they tried," said Mr. Tribole. "They sounded like tuis singing in the brush." Tuis a native New Zealand Zeal-and bird found in the bush which is so well known by its song. Professional Deer Cullers Hunting and fishing in the United States was the subject of some interesting comment. ! The trout-fishing season extends i from June to October in favourable favour-able years, but there are insufficient insuf-ficient fish in many rivers to sat isfy demands. Mr. Tribole confirmed con-firmed the story that American anglers risk dyspepsia, broken limbs and pneumonia on the banks of trout streams at midnight mid-night of May 31 in order that the first cast may be made on June 1. In most states fish under 7 inches in length must be returned to the water, but in some states game laws provide pro-vide that a fish over 5 inches is fair game for anglers. "In comparison with your rainbows a 5-inch or 7-inch fish is a fin- j gerling, but in some states of my country a trout of almost any size is still a trout." Utah is one of the game States |