DAMAGE BY DEER

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 5

DAMAGE BY DEER

MEASURES FOR RELIEE

GOVERNMENT GRANTS £1000

PROTECTION LOCALLY REMOVED,

Sportsmen speak of deer as being excellent for sport, but agriculturists describe the fleet-footed animals in differentterms, and in several noted farming districts, where deer are over-plentiful, the word "curse" is often used. The South Island is more affected by the depredations of deer than is the North Island, and for several months past complaints have been made, coupled with pleas for the removal of the protection existing on the animals to enable them to be destroyed.

Ihe complaints haye 1 been heeded by wie Government, and in an interview today with the Hon. B; F. Bollard (Minister of Internal Affairs) a "Post" representative was informed that it had been decided to remove protection on deer in certain areas within the following acclimatisation districts, where the animals are m great numbers, and have been committing damage to property :-Nelson MarlWough, North Canterbury, West-land, Otago, Waitaki, Southland. In order to assist in the destruction ?'*" thesa d ls triots," said Mr. Boliard, ihe Government has resolved to n>a-ke agrantof £ICOO, and this' 6 um will be allocated in proportion to the estimated number of deer in the districts mentioned. As the acclimatisation societies in the respective districts propose cullingor thinning out the deer In those areas where protect,^ fe not .removed, part, satiin gl'a^fc^'lU j36 P*y«*le to acciliniatiTwo thin 1 n f btf° n Will be « fellow :- ivto-tbirds of the amount allocated to each distort will be paid in Set of the deer destroyed in tne unprotected£o°' ton and one-third in the-portion wfiere rate of 4 a,re Protected, being at the late of 2s a head for deer destroyed ;n the unprotected areas, and Is a" head &!%%£?*■ deSt^6d ».«« P»The Minister added ft j addition to the proposal outlined, he had mads H' rET" Hr^roush the Hon Si? E Sp^h Xv 1" of D*feace> for the -upplj by the Defence Department of ammunition to acclimatisation StieV and that further details SwS