THE DEER PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19910, 23 April 1930, Page 13

THE DEER PROBLEM.

>■ .to an *DiToa or tbx pscss. ; read .with interest various letters dealing. with the alleged "deer menace." To my mind Lord ' Latymer is quite correct ih his statements. I liave 'dn many occasions been deer stalking in> Canterbury and elsewhere, but unless one is prepared to pack in foradayortwo right away from any-farms-red deer are very hard if- to find. With a small party I have just spent four days in country: ported to. be good for this sport, but wo neither saw nor heard any deer. ?? » Tnstead jOf calling a meeting iU town «ny tarAer or run-holder wher is f'mcnnced" could not do better than fir," advise sportsmen (either through a Farmers' TJnion or the Acclimatisation fk Society), where his property is, and 'l* give free permission to reputable 4. parties to shoot there, and he would A<. • anickly have his property cleared for , ■ Him. At present one experiences the ■ f greatest difficulty in locating areas -,*Jiere are. present, and haying ' fciind hardest thing is to 1 to stalk there. V. 'Ste cohclusidn "it is my opinion that fijpestimate of 2,000,000 deer in the mith Island is grossly exaggerated, Sjff I doubt if there are half a million >'©Cthis area.—Yours, etc.. i'flr stalker. ?»pri! 22nd, 1930.