DESTRUCTION OF GOATS
TE AROHA MOUNTAIN AREA SMALL GRANT AUTHORISED [nY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] T!•', AUDITA, Tuesday Following upon the reports of damage by goats to the embryo kauri forest beyond To Arohn Mountain, advice has been received from the conservator of State Forests that arrangements have been made for a small party of hunters to destroy the goats. Operations will commence early in the new year and the hunters will be paid a daily wage, conditional upon each man destroying 130 goats a day. Although the conservator makes it clear that his department is not authorised to pay a bounty for each head, the remuneration to the hunters will equal a bounty of Gd a head, in addition to which the men will be allowed to retain and sell all skins.
The total Government grant for this work, however, is at present limited to £25. As this sum will merely cover the. destruction of JOOO goats, and considerably greater numbers are reported to be at large in tho area, a certain amount of disappointment is felt that for so important a work such a small sum should have been allocated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22619, 6 January 1937, Page 13
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