DEER NUISANCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1923, Page 1

DEER NUISANCE.

At ( I.IMATISATION SOUL’I IFK. confer. is v TKI.!:<. HAITI- I* Kit I‘HKSS ASSOCIATION. ; j WELLINGTON. April 11. A conference ol repri---eiilalivcs ol | A-eliinatisati' II Societies and repre- ell- | l; ■ ic.-s of the interested CevernmetiL | i.-pari meiu - i - being held here t ' consi, I; - r what :-tejis should be taken to dal with the questi--n ol t'U- d I'-fe-t - lions im-.de by deer. The Minister of Internal All'airs. M, 1 )„w nie Siewu, t. is president. The Aeciiinntisnliou Societies ol Ashbiii toi,. l-'.-il'ling. \lai I 111 i • ag-i. Nelson. (i,ago. North Canterbury. Rotorua. Smitld ml. Waitaki. V.'nim irino, Wr-n----snmi .-, nd Wellington are r-ju e:-,-iited. I lie Xevv Zealand Forestry l-eague ml l-’o.esi i v Hoard are a!-o rcj.iesent.d. and there ate -ev- ru! departmental dimers pre-ent. The Minister said that the Otago Aei-nmatisatioii Society, which bad qcnl in culling out IK Hit.) head ol le.-r in the hi'l quarter or two. while -, cognising the necessity of removing the protection from large area', was anxious that one particular held of s, Oteh deer should be preserved. Its tews would be put before the Conference. as to how far it would be pes.|!,le to maintain some herds in I'mt-.-mote from settlement in the inter-,-ts of the Touri>i Department. A - - ning protection was removed in some specified areas remote from, settlement, tic said there still remained a veiv large questir 11 as to what was to be ,l, ue v iih a vir-v. to led'.: i'-,~ ( i ting rid of the deer not in protected lie understaod the Defence Department was ire; a red to slip, > ammunition at cost price under p.oper test riel ions. There was strong leelmg in Parliament, and among the -et tiers ii-ii-au. e, iit the (invcriaiieiu v -a> anxious at the same time to protect I’m interests of the Tourist Department ..ml the Acclimatisation S ciettes.