DEER AT WAINUI
DESTROYING THE NATIVE BUSH
When returning from Orongorongo on Monday afternoon, the municipal party were interested in the sight of some score of deer feeding complacently on the grassy slopes of the lower dam.
A Wainui resident, with considerable knowledge of the locality, informed a Dominion representative that the increase in the number of deer in the Wainui sanctuary was such that the undergrowth of the native bush was beginning to suffer, and, as is well known to those with an acquaintance with New Zealand forests, the destruction of the undergrowth means in time the death of the bush.
Something ought to be done to thin out the herd, or if possible, to eliminate the deer altogether. The value of the Wainui watersheds is largely created by the fine bush which cloaks its hillsides, and it would be unfortunate for the future water supply of Wellington if the bush were allowed to be destroyed by the depredations of the deer.
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