Our earliest paid cullers worked for the Acclimatisation societies, where these shooters were encouraged to spare trophy-potential deer, and destroy inferior and ill-conditioned animals, in an effort to protect the future status of the herds and the revenue that stag seasons generated for cash-strapped societies.
In the following season of 1954, Roy Large and Frank Delaney had the companionship of Newton McConochie who joined them for a return trip to the Waiatoto.
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