Withdrawing Protection.
FROM DEER IN DOMINION. CRITICISM PROM IRELAND. DANGER OF LOSING AN ASSET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association). DUNEDIN, Oct. 30. The Government's withdrawal of protection for imported game, such as chamois, moose and thar, is criticised by Major F. G. Meagher, of Galway, Ireland, in a letter to th? Otago Acclimatisation Society.
"Even in their native haunts, where they are protected, these animals are comparatively not plentiful," he Avrites. "Whatever may bo said for the indiscriminate shooting of deer which increase quickly, it is certainly puzzling and a retrograde step insofar as the rarer animals are concerned. Even in thickly populated Europe, where land is scarce and land hunger a reality, no oiw is even found to question the desirability of protecting chamois, which live where no other animal could."
Major Meagher added that it was to be hoped that the Government would soon realise the damage that was being done and the danger, of losing an asset.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19850, 30 October 1936, Page 3
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