DEER MENACE
CULLING DECIDED ON THE DEPARTMENT’S ACTION (Per United Press Association). 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 that it realised the matter was one of greater urgency in some districts than others, and it was decided it was essential that action should be taken as soon as possible in regard to the following districts:— Ashburton, Buller, Southland, Otago, Lakes District of Nelson, Westland, Waitaki, North Canterbury and Marlborough. With the exception of the Rotorua district, which would be dealt with by the several departments concerned, it was not considered necessary at present to remove 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 under that authority. Acclimatisation Societies would be able not only to carry out the necessary thinning, 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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Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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186DEER MENACE Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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