DAMAGE BY DEER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2990, 17 May 1923, Page 3

DAMAGE BY DEER.

Immediate Action in South

At a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last week a letter was received from the Depart ment of Internal Affairs in reference to tbe depredations of deer The department stated that it realised the matter was one of greater urgency in some districts than in others, and it had decided that it was essential aotion should be taken as soon as possible in regard to the following districts:—Ashburton, Buller, South land, Otago Lakes District, Nelson, Westland, Waitaki, North Canterbury, Marlborough. With the exception of Rotorua district (wbich would bo dealt with by the several departments concerned) it was not considered necessary at present to remove the protection for deer in any acclimatisation district in the North Island, but warrants to cull or destroy deer would be issued to the several acclimatisation sooieties, and under that authority acclimatisation societies would be able, not only to carry out the necessary thinning out, but to authorise persons to kill deer, and to assist them in the matter where the animals were a imnace to property.