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Kōrero: Transport – overview

Capturing deer

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Capturing deer

Helicopters, introduced to New Zealand in the 1950s, proved useful for a range of tricky flying tasks impossible for fixed-wing aircraft. Live deer could be pursued in rugged country by helicopter and then captured and flown out – a more lucrative exercise than traditional hunting.

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Reference: Neville Peat, Hurricane Tim: the story of Sir Tim Wallis. Dunedin: Longacre Press, 2005, p. 114

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James Watson, Transport – overview – Air travel, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24999/capturing-deer (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā James Watson, i tāngia i te 10 June 2013.