DEER-STALKING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 4 June 1923, Page 8

DEER-STALKING.

REGULATIONS GAZETTED,

The latest “Gazette” notifies that red and fallow deer may be taken and killed within any acclimatisation district, subject to the following conditions : _ ■ Notwithstanding anything contained in the Animals Protection and Game Act, the secretary of any acclimatisation society, or any person or persons duly authorised in writing by any such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill within the district of that society red deer and fallow deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorised persons, should be destroyed. Such deer may bo destroyed as aforesaid during a period of' twelve months from tho date hereof. A return shall be furnished to the Minister for Internal Affairs by the secretary of each acclimatisation society within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number (if any) and sex of all deer so destroyed as' aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which ilie deer were destroyed. The bead or antlers of any stag, or the venison or skins of any deer, taken or killed pursuant to this warrant may be disposed of subject to the regulations made under- the said Act by Or-der-in-Council dated the 3rd day of November, 1922, and gazetted on tho same date. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations is liable to a penalty not exceeding £2O.