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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 20

A Hamilton resident hns received a letter from a friend at Rotorua, wk°j with 'a companion, recently obtained permission to traverse the State Fovestry Department’s plantations, in search of deer. The correspondent states (says the "Waikato Times ), that though the. sportsmen only succeeded in securing one animal they came across ample evidence of damase done fiv deer in the plantations. One 200-acr'e plantation of chestnuts, about, seven years old. with young trees eight feet high, had been cleaned out, the trees having been broken and the leaves and bark eaten. An adjoining plantation of pinus insignis. from 3ft to 7ft/ in height, has not, the writer states, been touched yet. ‘but will be later on, as just at. present tho deer s horns, are growing, which prevents them from rubbing. Deer, he adds, will rip the bark off blue gums or pines up to seven feet high om the trunks, and are becoming an absolute curse in the nursery and plantations.