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Kōrero: Hunting

Professional deer cullers

Video file

From the 1930s the government employed professional deer cullers to reduce wild deer populations.

Extract from Mountain lands in jeopardy, National Film Unit, 1959, courtesy of Archives New Zealand

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South Coast Productions

Reference: Venison Hunters. South Coast Productions, 2000

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Carl Walrond, Hunting – Deer stalking and culling, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/15635/professional-deer-cullers (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.