THINNING OUT DEER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17037, 10 May 1923, Page 9

THINNING OUT DEER.

NECESSARY AUTHORITY GIVEN. (Per Prkss Association.) WELLINGTON, May 10. At a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night, a let>ter was received from the Department of Internal Affairs with reference to the depredations of deer. The Department stated that it> realised that the matter was one of greater urgency in some districts than in others, and it bad been decided that it. was essential that action should be taken as soon as possible in regard to the following districts : —-Ashburton, B tiller, Southland, Otago, the Lakes District of Nelson, Westland, Waitaki, North Canterbury, and Marlborough. With the exception of t-he 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 several acclimatisation societies. Under that authority, acclimatisation societies would be able, not only to carry out the necessary thinning out-, but also to authorise persons to kill deer and. to assist them in the matter where animals were a menace to property.