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REMOVING A MENACE

The Marlborough Branch of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association has kindly forwarded a tally of the pigs and goats killed by its members during a five-year period ending 30 April, 1963. No record was kept of deer or opossums destroyed, but the figures supplied were pigs 11,786, and goats 14,058. These are impressive figures, averaging as they do 2,357 pigs and 2,811 goats each year tor five years. If we add to these figures the very considerable totals destroyed by private hunters and Government hunters, also by pigdestruction councils, one begins to understand the gravity of the menace of noxious animals to our country and the need for sound planning and firm action in dealing with it. In the Murchison Range alone (Fiordland) three experienced Government hunters have been operating and since December 1962 some 2,348 animals have been accounted for, nearly all deer, daily kills of up to 45 animals being recorded.

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Forest and Bird, Issue 149, 1 August 1963, Page 11

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REMOVING A MENACE Forest and Bird, Issue 149, 1 August 1963, Page 11

REMOVING A MENACE Forest and Bird, Issue 149, 1 August 1963, Page 11

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