KILLING DEER

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1931, Page 3

KILLING DEER

A BIG TOLL. OPERATION IN SOUTH ISLAND. WELLINGTON. April 11. 'l’lm operations of the doer-killing parties of the Government in the South Island are being systematically carried oujt. A. further heavy toll of the animals was made last month, some 646 of them being killed in the Hunter Valley. Reporting to the Ministciyof ltd.-rim! Affairs (the Hon. P. A. de. hi jforrello) Air G. F. Yerex, of the staff of the Department of Internal Affairs, who is in charge of the parties operating, states that one party at an average strength of five men, operating at the head o l ' the Hunter Valley, killed a total of filfi deer. Very had weather was experienced and this resulted in los s of time, but at such n.n altitude in the main divide, a great deal of rain and snow can always ho expected. As indicating the importance, of good weather on the. operations in such a locality, during the period from March 20 to .March 2D, this party killed sf'-9 dom\ In mm drive 245 deer were killed. On another occasion three men conducted ; > small drive and shot seventy deer, and another drive accounted for lit:}. During the month a party was moved from the Morven Hills to the valley of the Dobson Riven, above the head of Lake Oh,nr. Tire tallies of this party and the parties on Stewart Island and the Highborn Valley are not yet available. The party which commenced operations at the bond of the Rakaia River on March 14. with an average strength of three men. secured 136 deer and one chamois.