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Tourist poster

New Zealand is promoted as a climbing, hunting and fishing destination in this 1927 government poster. Within a decade, deer numbers had reached such levels that all protection had been removed, and the government employed cullers to reduce the deer population.

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Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-NZ-1927-01

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Carl Walrond, Hunting – Deer stalking and culling, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/15622/tourist-poster (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.