MYSTERY CLASSIC WOODY DUCK SHOOTING BOAT
The first weekend of May is not a good time for ducks – its opening weekend for the duck shooting season. Angus Rogers sent in the above photo yesterday that is pinned to the wall of the maimai (explained for non NZ readers – a temporary waterfront shelter for shooters to hide in, photos below) that Angus was shooting from on Saturday.
The caption reads – ’Shooting on the Piako – 1920’s. Various members of the Wilson and Collins familiars onboard.
Hopefully Angus’s bag for the day was less than what we see on display in the photo 🙂
Anyone able to ID the launch.
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Great photo . The man third from the right looks like he has shot a boar. The head appears to be in front of him .
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Tudor W Collins, famous photographer, businessman, entrepreneur, game fisherman, farmer, who worked extensively in Northern NZ from about the 1920s to 1960s, is in the group.
He was born in 1898 died in 1970s.
He took photos of huge numbers of the boats of his day. — KEN R
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