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DEER CONTROL

INCREASE IN ESTIMATES

GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION

CHRISTCHURCH, July 30. The. placing of over £2OOO more on the Estimates this year thnn was spent in the destruction of deer in New Zealand Inst year may be taken as evidence that the Government will try to deal with the problem of deer control, according to Mr C. W. Hervey, secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. At the conference to discuss deer control held in Christchurch on May 7th, action was left to the Department of Internal Affairs. Since then various areas throughout the Dominion, in which deer were formerly protected have been thrown open. “This means that more deer will be killed during 'rflie coming year,” explained Mr Hervey yesterday. “Last year the royalty paid for their destruction was two shillings in the unprotected areas and a shilling in those protected. Most of the districts throughout New Zealand are now open, but we do not know yet whether the royalty will be the same as for unprotected areas last year.” Mr G. D. McTlrnith, chairman of the Deer Committee of the Acclimatisation Society said that the removal of the protection would mean that much more would be spent ,in royalties, hut he did not think the increase would amount to £2060. It was probable that the Forestrv Department was going to take additional measures to control deer. Poisoning had been tried in some districts, but had proved unsuccessful as salt licks did not attract deer in New Zealand nearly as much as in America. In any case it was a method better left alone, and it seemed that the Department, by throwing almost all the districts open, and concentrating on the payment of royalties for their destruction by shooting, hoped to keep an effective check on deer.

The amount placed on the Estimates this year is £2600. Only £360 was voted last year, hut £557 was spent. There is also an amount of £lslO set aside for the destruction of wild pigs. A note in the schedule estimates states that these two sums nre to cover the expenditure on wild-life control within State forests, including the bounty on pig-snouts, deer-culling, and pig and goat extermination.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1930, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
365

DEER CONTROL Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1930, Page 2

DEER CONTROL Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1930, Page 2

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