DEER, CHAMOIS AND PIGS
INCREASES NOTED IN CATCHMENTS
The increase of “animal pests”— deer, chamois, and pigs—in the Waimakariri and Rakaia catchments is causing the North Canterbury Catchment Board some concern.
At a meeting of the board yesterday the chairman (Mr R. M. L. Johnson) gave figures of killings by a deer control unit in the Waimakariri catchment in support of the feeling of concern expressed in a report of the hoard’s soil conservation and reserves committee. The efforts of Government cullers had not been sufficient to keep down the increase, he said. In 1951, 1645 deer had been shot. The next year the figure was 2150, and in 1953 it was 3578. Although only 60 chamois had been shot in 1952, compared with 121 the year before, in 1953. 291 animals were exterminated. Pig killings increased from 79 in 1951 to 116 in 1952, and to 164 last year.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 3
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