WILD-LIFE CONTROL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 17

WILD-LIFE CONTROL.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —In your leader on wild life control in to-day’s Daily Times, you do yourself less than justice. The amicable results attained at the deer conference in Christchurch were largely due to the efforts of the two Dunedin papers. By means of excellent leaders at frequent intervals, and the facilities provided for correspondence, so much publicity was given to the unanswerable, facts regarding the deer menace that the acclimatisation societies evidently realised that; it would be hopeless to persist in their opposition to wholesale destruction of the pest. Now that both sides have reached a unanimous decision regarding this matter, the decks may be said to be cleared for action. But the greatest problem still faces us. We now have to insist on Government action, and the Minister of Internal Affairs must be occasionally reminded of his duty in the matter. Several people have expressed surprise to me that bird lovers should be so interested in the deer controversy. The lecture in the Town Hall on Wednesday next is designed to • let townspeople see, by means of coloured slides and photographs from Nature, what we have at stake in our unique bird life. The welfare of the birds is inseparably bound up in the welfare of our forests.—l am, etc., Take.