OTAGO DEER HERDS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 145, 4 June 1913, Page 2

OTAGO DEER HERDS.

| (1 'ELIM. Ii.WI.Y Ni.ll'llD I Dime din, June 3. I A d-pulatiun representing the | O(aa>> i liiinii i'-,H mn Society t.o- ! day nniu d upon (be Him. 11. I>. | Bell f< -a -1111* purpose of soliciting [ (lox ei tine nl m-*-:st ■nice to cull the | ic-l deer h< ids m the back country bt I wien Limbs ami Lake Unwell, it nus [iiniihd mil dial tie Ilawea l.cid had long been regarded as the hurst in the but the deer lull Inen eiiaw d to increase in such puiiibris ;nul had bcwomi' so wemiy th '1 a wood In ad was becoming a iar’t\. The '.o( icf 5 had spent £7OG (iiiciiding a, Goi’cnimcnt subsidy i | £IW) in thinnhig out the deer, but i* was evident that from WOO to 200( more old hinds and malfornm would have to L? shot in order to preserve the herd. The society had spent most of the revenue derived imm fishing licenses towards tint' <nd but t-l.m work had been eiinrh hampered by the inaction ot ihe Wait a k i Acelima t i s: 1 1 ii ■ n So > et \ a weedy and mallornu J deci m iume t over from the VV :;it:,ki r:i,ngc«. 'I Im opinion was i cd licit I o-th hei'iJs .siimjid lie pl::cvc! m.dcr mi eont ro' for 1111■ .parpo•'o cf inip ri> \ mic, them, but tliev vi'wii’d Ac wn.,' to <m ope-votien wiih ' !<< Waitei-ki Society if the Governmcm could see it:; way to ass:st Li-t’j bod i e s in th e ci l i 111: x o 1 • 11 ralio 11 ?. Ranger Jv;• 11s -aid to J" e< u was urgently requned. He mm dtnii n e at 11 1 <■i,feiimd s 1 1 i I h c 11 s > a d,:»; i cd. and said t uni Io gr I tlm l>» results i!’:' win -I-,' hmd should l.m ■driven toun it Is a common mi! I'e and 1 1> in erm nm to fhe extent ■ f about hii'i'i. 'flic M initiitT sai-4 it had been stat,ed that th: din r ware iuivting the sum'l i'ami'is, runny of wl>mn wvrc eomydaining ■ dopra Jat mns -n tui'inyi mis 1 otiie:’ cimps. 'i'lu' ( -i--vornnieiii <d;ii.m.rs bi'd rvlrmidy lalm,, I.iie matter imdcr coiii.idi'i’al ion, an 1 ’dthiKigh iie tim.igln p< rimimfiv th if the ! lovi”■l'ninciif would li-nvr to at tc ml I n tim ma 11 c> ■. it e i• i - aid g; v ■:' 11 s > piimmi-m that in.cli a course wmdd im ado Pi cd. ' Pf’ v- m m>l prepared hi say wimii.m’ tile mm I; could Vo dmw hirni by tim smithy ( -r tin (lovi■ rn tiimtii. Jmi Irimi wlmt hml m<mi> un tier his notice in the North island he timiig'it tim Government wonli iinae to go into i)m matter in a still ut itic way i o me mm tim best re mis is. It was not a I "aw: a or a A ait sk i qiwi-nmm l>a; applied i o draw hm'<!‘i al! nmm X lar Zea inn I'iie mailer would receive his enrol’.il a t t (* i i,(ion.