DEER MENACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 8

DEER MENACE.

SITUATION IN UREWERA. Per Press Association. HAMILTON. May 20. The necessity has arisen for the permanent placing of an officer of the Department of Internal in the Urewera Country whose principal duties will he the superintendence of the official operations for th.c destruction of deer, and also to attend to other matters which come within the province of the department, said Hon. . E. Parry (Minister of Internal Affairs) to-dav. He said that explorations by officers showed the deer menace in the Urewera to be greater than most people acquainted with that vast and beautiful native bush area* lmag“The Urewera native bush is rightly hiMilv prized by New Zealanders as one of the finest and most picturesoue areas of the kind in the Dominion -The Government views this native hush area as a national heritage of the people and we must do our best to keep it intact for all having a wish to see and admire it. With the appreciated assistance of the people, fires have been well kept out of the bush, but concentration o'n the destruction of deer, which are creating great damage to trees and undergrowth, is necessary. We must have men in that hush devoting their constant attention tn deer It has been decided to erect a bouse and stables at Ruatahuna, in the heart of the forest, for the man man who is to take charge of operatlo»You have a. lot of good land in this territory,” remarked the Minister. It was not unusual to hear mem from parched areas visiting Parliament House sav that the only green paddocks to he seen in their travels were in the Waikato.