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better plan than to fence off a choice piece of 

 sheltered ground, drain the land, and feed in a 

 dozen or twenty wild hinds. A Warnham stag 

 of two or three years old should then be placed in 

 the enclosure. Each year a fresh lot of hinds should 

 be captured for the stag, which should never be 

 turned out in the forest. Such a stag can be obtained 

 from Mr. Lucas of Warnham Court, Sussex." 



I quote from an article by Mr. Millais which 

 appeared recently in Country Life. 



A mail has just come in from New Zealand. The 

 following is a summary of recent events as far as 

 the deer are concerned. 



In June 1907 Mr. Hardcastle extracted a promise 

 from the Otago Acclimatisation Society that a start 

 should be made in the following summer to cull out 

 the undesirable animals, both male and female, from 

 the North Otago herd. He suggested also that 

 stalkers should be allowed to kill malforms, and that 

 the fee for stalking licences should be raised from 

 4 to 5, the extra funds thus obtained to be de- 

 voted to paying competent men for getting rid of 

 " rubbish." 



So matters rested until the monthly meeting of 

 the Society in January. A resolution then appeared 

 in the report of their proceedings stating that it had 

 been decided to leave the herd alone, as culling opera- 

 tions would involve a close season ! Instead the sole 

 step to be taken was to request stalkers to shoot any 

 malforms they might see ! 



