DEPREDATIONS OF DEER.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13500, 9 October 1911, Page 5

DEPREDATIONS OF DEER.

MANAWATU FARMERS MAKE COMPLAINT. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ October 7. Settlers in the Glen Oroua district have been troubled lately by the depredations of herds of deer. * A farmer stated yesterday that it is no uncommon tiling to rise in the morning and find that in the very early hours his young oats have been visited by a foraging party of deer and the luscious blades nibbled back or trampled down, while the vegetable gardens and orchards arc also made to sutler. No ordinary fence is high enough to keep out the animals, who take them all with the greatest ease. Recently a well-known farmer surprised a fine stag and his mate on the road. The pair galloped along in front of the trap for some distance, and finally cleared the roadside fence with a flying leap, which showed how. difficult it would be to keep them out of any paddock in which they desired to browse. It is said that the animals, which arc evidently quite uumerous judging by the damage they do in a single night, made their homos in various patches of bush in the district. They are said to have been introduced into the locality in the early days by a large landholder. The settlers who have suffered most by these animals havo made representations to the Government on the matter, and have received promises that something will be done.