_The Evening Post_, 9 Sept 1922:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Having regard to the fact that red deer are, by eating out all undergrowth and ring-barking the trees, threatening to destroy much of the reserved forest throughout the Dominion, Mr. W. H. Field (Otaki) is asking if the Government will provide every facility for the killing of these animals when they are found to be committing such carnage and destruction.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220909.2.25
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