GENERAL NEWS.

Otaki Mail, 1 September 1930, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

.Rabbit shooting from motor ears with the spotlights burning is a well-known method of destroying the too frequent "bunny" in the country, and the idea was recently applied to deal with deer j which-had grown wise to the ways of ) st&lkers in'tho Waikaia Valley, Southland. The nocturnal habits of these animals have deprived settlers of these appreciable quantity of winter feed set aside for stock, says the Mataura Selecting a dark night," a partv of several rifles equipped withi powerful spotlights adjourned ,to an area sow'a in turnips, to which the deer had given close attention in the hours of darkness. Waiting m the night was well advanced, and at ttft arranged hour, the spotlights were turned on. and a number of deer were seen quietly j feeding among the turnips. Few, if any , of the deer escaped across open country to the bush. « A Stratford motorist,, -who oil | l.he road between 5.30, 'and' six o.'cioek oe. djrecent evening, reports that over a very sfcort stretch of road he met a , motor bicycle "vy|thfl»t a tail light, a motor car with only fIJM? head-light, a push bicyele with a,o tigW'hl '.all, a? ld ft bus,'- • Tfo-'MiO-torist points '.oat. that 1 the half-light jwhicJrJollows sunset is a highly dangerous jMjriod; when vehicles on the i -road., are hard to' distinguish and the iiesl; things'are reqnired. There are' a number of cyclist*/>in'-iLevin courting ! Irc»#le through rid% cycles at night, -"without" lights and also in using the