CROSSING WITH RED DEER

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 5

CROSSING WITH RED DEER

WAPITI IN TE ANAU AREA. DISQUIETING DTSCOVFRY. (By Association » DUNEDIN, April 12. Two Waiirarapa. men, Messrs A. and K. Sutherland, have just concluded a remarkably successful wapiti stalking expedition in the Lake Te Anau district, Mr A. Sutherland bagging three on the northern airm of Lake Te Anau and his brother one o.n the middle aim. While Mr A. Sutherland speaks in the most glowing terms of wapiti in the block he worked), his brother made a disquieting discovery concerning herds on the middle • anni, which he found wore crossing with red deer, and lie was of the opinion that unless they wore culled out irreparable harm would be done.

"In that block,” Mr Sutherland added, "I found that all the wapiti are crossing with red deer and out of 25 I saw and one that I shot a bull and a cow were the only pure types. There is a serious danger of the herd being ruined. The crossbred is a very miserable animal. Its body iis as big as the wapiti, but it lias a very poor head.”