PITY THE FARMER
DEER SLAUGHTER ANOTHER DUTY [Special io the ' Stab.-] CHRISTCHURCH,’November 18. Pity the poor farmer 1 Hitherto rabbits and rabbit inspectors have been his. bugbear; now the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society wants, to have him prosecuted if he fails in certain districts to destroy the deer which wander on his property. Hitherto the farmer has been under the impression that the deer were imported at the instance of sportsmen, for the benefit of sportsmen; but the particular deer the society objects to, which swarm over the border from Nelson, have small' antlers (or something of the sort), which make them hardly worthy of powder and shot in a sporting sense; so most sportsmen prefer to hunt other types of deer in areas where the Nelson deer are unknown. The society has decided ■ to ask the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Bollard) to take action against owners of land in unprotected districts who do not destroy deer on their properties. ' In its action the society may claim to misquote an old saying that necessity is the mother of invention (intervention) ; but it is hard on the farmer all the same.
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Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 2
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190PITY THE FARMER Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 2
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