EMPHATIC PROTEST
e ATTACK ON DEER STALKERS IN CANTERBURY AT SHEEP OWNERS MEETING. ALLEGATIONS OF TRESPASS & WILD SHOOTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "Unless we have the guts to shoot them ourselves, we will never get rid of them,” declared Mr John Murchison. in the course of a bitter attack on deer stalkers at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Sheep Owners’ Union last night. "Until then," he continued, "we will get no consideration. They must shoot at something, deer or no I deer. I have lost sheep and horses too. These poachers take no notice of warnings. If we happen to get a conviction for trespass, the next thing we know is that stacks or perhaps a woolshed are burnt down."
Mr A. T. Shand said that on his property an aluminium notice plate was erected warning trespassers off. The plate was shot to pieces. A visitor called at the homestead one day with a bullet-hole through a plate over one of his car's wheels. Runholders got no consideration whatever from riflemen. The chairman said the secretary iiad uifdertaken to make an emphatic protest to the authorities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 8
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