DISCRETIONARY POWER FOR DEER DESTRUCTION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 3

DISCRETIONARY POWER FOR DEER DESTRUCTION

CULLING OUT HERDS. With the apparent object of destroying inferior animals among the doer in acclimatisation districts, the government is granting special discretionary power under certain authorities for the shooting of deer during the next 12 months. A recent Gazette states that, notwithstanding anything in the Animals protection and Game Act,, l‘J2l-22, the secretary of the acclimatisation, society o,r any persons authorised by him, may, for 12 months from the date of the Gazette, kill such red or fallow deer of cither sex and any ago which, in (lie opinion of the secretary or authorised persons, should be destroyed. For the purposes of the regulations the term “acclimatisation society" includes, in respect of (tic ltotorua acclimatisation district, It lie Department of Tourist and Health Resorts. Reference to the secretary of an acclimatisation society shall be deemed to include the general manager of Hie department named. Provision is made that a return of (he number and sex of deer destroyed, setting out the place and date of shooting and tlic name of the stalker, shall be furnished to Ike Minister of Internal Affairs by the secretary of each acclimatisation society within a month after the expiry of the 12 months' period.