BITTER ATTACK
DEER-STALKERS CONDUCi RUNHOLDERS’ CHARGE SHOOTING OF STOCK INDIGNANT PROTESTS (Per Proas Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “Unless we have the guts to shoot them ourselves, we will never oo ncl of them.” declared Mr. John Murchi■von in the course of a bitter attack on deer-stalkers at the annual meeting cf the Canterbury Sheepowners’ Union last night. “Until then,” he continued, “we will get no consideration. They must phoot at something, deer or no deer. I have lost sheep and horses too. These poachers take no notice of warn.Mgs. If wo happen to got a conviction for trespass, the next thing we know'is that stacks, or perhaps a woolshad, arc burnt down.” , 'Mr. A. T. Shand said that on his property m aluminium notice plale was* erected warning trespassers elf. The plate was shot to pieces. A .visitor called at his homestead one day with a bullet hole through the plate over one of hi: car’s wheels. Runholders got r.o consideration whatever from riflemen.
The chairman said the secretary 'had undertaken to make an emphatic protest to the authorities.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 7
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179BITTER ATTACK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 7
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