IRRESPONSIBLE RIFLEMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23884, 11 August 1939, Page 7

IRRESPONSIBLE RIFLEMEN

TRESPASS NOTICES IGNORED SHEEP OWNERS’ LOSSES EMPHATIC PROTEST TO AUTHORITIES (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug 10 “Unless we have the ‘guts' to shoot them ourselves we will never be rid oi them,” declared Mr' John Murchison in the course of a bitter attack on deer stalkers at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Sheep Owners Union las night “Until then.” he continued, “we will get no consideration They must shoot at something, deer or iw deer. I have lost sheep and horses too These poachers take r.o notice ol warnings, and if we happen to get a conviction for trespass the next thine we know is that stacks or. perhaps a ■wool shed, are burnt down.” Mr A. T. Shand said that on his property an aluminium notice plate was erected warning trespassers off The plate was shot to pieces. A visitor called at. his homestead one day with a bullet hole through a elate over one of his car’s wheels. Runholders got no consideration whatever trom riflemen. . , • The chairman said the secretary had undertaken to make an emphatic protest to the authorities