' No Wapiti Programme’
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 16. The chairman of the National Parks Authority (Mr R. L. Maclachlan) denied today that the Government had undertaken any programme drastically to reduce wapiti in the Fiordland block. Mr Maclachlan said that arrangements were made this year for an animal reduction campaign to be held two or three times during the year in conjunction with the New Zealand Deerstalkers* Association. “The idea was to reduce animal numbers—but not to shoot wapiti bulls,” he said. The New Zealand Forest Service had also been authorised to take up to 250 animals under a research programme into the hybridisation between red deer and wapiti.
The Labour M.P. for Timaru, Sir Basil Arthur, said in a statement today that the chances of hunters getting a wapiti trophy head had been made almost impossible through Government action.
The Government was accused of a breach of faith for allowing the wapiti block in Fiordland to be intensively shot by New Zealand Forest Service cullers just before the annual trophy hunting season.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31346, 17 April 1967, Page 1
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