Wapiti Cross With Red Deer

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7438, 13 April 1934, Page 6

Wapiti Cross With Red Deer

MONGREL HERD DISAPPOINTS SPORTSMEN Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. Two Wuirarana men, Messrs A. and Iv. Sutherland, have just concluded a remarkably successful wapiti-stalking expedition in the Lake Tc Anau district, Mr A. Sutherland bagging three on the northern arm of Lake Te Anau and his brother one on the middle arm. While Air A. Sutherland speaks in the most glowing terms of wapiti in the block he worked, his brother made a disquieting discovery concerning the herds on the middle arm, which he found were crossing with red doer, and lie was of opinion that unless they were culled out irreparable harm would be done. “In that block,” Air Sutherland added, ‘‘l found that all the wapiti are crossing with red deer, nnd out of the 25 I saw and one that I shot, a bull and a cow were the only pure types. There is serious danger of the herd being ruined. The crossbred is a very miserable animal. Its body is as big ns a wapiti, but it has a very poor head.”