NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1077, 1 August 1912, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Many years ago, we are informed, the owners of the estate —we think that is the name —in the Carnarvon district, imported and liberated a number of deer. These have increased and multiplied, and have spread themselves over an area of country including Taikorea, Oroua Downs, Rangiotu and Carnarvon, and have done, and are doing, considerable damage to settlers’ cultivated crops. They are partial to swedes, mangels and growing grain. One settler informs us that hundreds of pounds worth of damage has been done. He stated that he has a lew acres of native bush which he counts as a very valuable asset. He has gone to a good deal of trouble and expense in collecting and planting native shrubs and trees- These animals get in and eat the young growth, ferns and trees, and have also done much damage to his orchard. He questions whether the animals are under the protection of the acclimatisation society, although he had heard that| the Society intend to issue licenses for killing same. He would like to know what the position is in connection with these depredators, and for this reason we would respectfully ask the secretary to put the case from the society’s view point for the information of settlers.