DAMAGE BY DEER.
IMMEDIATE ACTION IN SOUTH ISLAND. WELLINGTON, May 10. At a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night a letter was received from the Department of Internal Affairs in reference to the depredations of deer. . The Department stated tnat it realised the matter was one of greater urgency in some districts than in others, and it had decided that it was essential action should be taken as soon as possible in regard to the following districts: —Ashburton, Boiler, Southland, Otago, Lakes District, Nelson, Westland, Waitaki, North Canterbury, Marlborough. With the exception of Rotorua district (which would be dealt- with by the several departments concerned) it was not considered necessary at present to remove the protection for deer in any acclimatisation district in the North Island, but warrants to cull or destroy deer would be issued to the several acclimatisation societies, and under that authority acclimatisation societies would lie able, not only to carry out the necessary thinninsr out, but to authorise persons to kill deer and to assist them in the matter where the animals were a menace to property.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3610, 22 May 1923, Page 58
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183DAMAGE BY DEER. Otago Witness, Issue 3610, 22 May 1923, Page 58
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