DEPREDATIONS OF DEER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 92, 9 October 1911, Page 5

DEPREDATIONS OF DEER

MANAWATU FARMERS MAKE '{ COMPLAINT. *j Pahnerston North, Saturday. Settlers in the Glen Oroua district ''t have been troubled lately by the depredations of herds of deer. -/j A farmer stated yesterday that it is % no uncommon tiling to rise In the morn- ='■ lng and' find tliat in the very early hours -J his young oats have been visited by a • foraging party of deer and the luscious . ~jj blades nibbled back or trampled down, ->> while the vegetable gardens and orchards jV are also made to suffer. No ordinary ~,.. fence is high enough to: keep out the ,"P! animals, who" take them all with the li greatest case. ''-£ Recently a well-known farmer sur- .4 prised! a fine stag and his mate on the 'is road. The pair galloped along in front ,£ of the trap for some tKstanoe, and finally ']| cleared the roadside fence with a flying J leap which showed how difficult it would j?y be to keep them out of any paddock in c which hhey desired to browse. ft I It is 'Said that the which a*e ' ($; evidently quite numerous judging by4ha ' *; damage they do in a single'night, made ~,'J their homes-, in various pajbh'es of bush v 'v£ in the district. They are-said to have *£ been introduced into the locality in the ';j| early days by a large landholder. The !•* settlers who have suffered most by these i ,4 animals have made 'representations ta >JJ the Government on the matter, and nave '-,', i received promises that something wHI '• I be done. $