DESTRUCTIVE DEER.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16695, 2 December 1919, Page 5

DESTRUCTIVE DEER.

A request for permission to destroy nnv fallow deer which might he found en his-property next autumn was made by a Morrinsvillo a letter received by the Council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. The writer stated that, he wished to plant swedes for cattle feed. Last year two of his neighbours had had their crops entirelv eleaned out by tho deer before the swedes were half-grown, and had had to scrape through tho winter by having from others more fortunate. He therefore wanted permission to use any means at his disposal to deatoy deer which might coine on his property , while the crops were in. _ j Tho letter was received with some- v what derisive smiles - , tho secretary remnrking that he had already replied statincr~thnfc the s-icicty. which sought to convict those who killed deer, was hardlv in a [Kisition to grant the permission desired, and advising the writer to a;iplv to the Minister for Internal Affairs. This had been done, and the M-niot'T had referred the letter to the Sicietv. Members were inclined to think the case asrainst the deer had been nut too stroncrlv. "Xo doubt it was tno rabbits that ate the swedes." remarked one: another said that if the owner of the propertv fenced it" properly his swodes wrm!d }»e wife. It was decided that the matter ho left in the hands of the Minister for i Internal Affairs.