POISONING OF DEER
Mountaineers’ Access
If the 1080 poisoning activities at present being carried out in the Caples Valley were extended to every State forest block in New Zealand, access to the back country could be seriously limited, said Mr C. Turner at the Canterbury Mountaineering Club’s annual meeting last evening. “The thin edge of the wedge is going in there, as far as access to the mountains goes,” Mr Turner said.
“It is now apparent that by the use of 1080 poison, deer are being destroyed effectively—almost as quickly as rabbits, said Mr D. C. Morse. A voice: Ten years.
“I think this club would be well advised to wait until the full facts are known,” Mr Morse said. The club had already written to the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Skinner) but would not be doing anything until the full facts were heard from both .sides, said the president (Mr J. F. Hayes). “For a period of 10 years we will have the back-country polluted with poison,” said Mr E. Wilson.
He was more concerned with the access problem, said Mr Turner. If similar poisoning were carried out in other areas. it might mean that mountaineers would be blocked drom climbing.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 12
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