A CITY PEST.
. WEASELS IN WELLiNGTON. _ . , .-'Tcu'd never :guess what.l've got here," said . a -Brougham: Street."resident,, to a Dominion, representative yesterday morning, exhibiting at the same time a slim newspaper-wrapped, parcel. ■: . .-' '-.- '. my "cat' ./caught this 'morning—one' of niaiiy' that swarm : in my neiglibourhood.". . ■ ■''■-.: ".:■,•.;.. ■'■•.- . "What! '■! Weasels 'in ' the''-■■'■•heart -of IWellihgton?"V, V ' ';;- - ... : -v':
: "Yes,, hundreds" 1 of ■■ ; them.; ■ Wherever there are fowls you'll hear of weasels.. I've:shot:two or three in my/place with a pea-rille, and another four in-the. yard of the. destructor of. Clyde .Quay. Mr. Sellars,\ of ithe . Clyde . Quay Hotel, had between fifty , and, sixty i'owls;.;at' one time. .Now:he.has only"got twenty,".or less-—weasels • have; killed - them off. - 'They would be, doing some, good if they .killed off the rats, but. they don't; 1 They're after fowls all the - time. ; . : This , one' fought like: a tiger when my cat caught him—they ; tako, a -lot , of killing." .■ Weasels,, it might, be mentioned, are .still/protected :by Act of l Parliament. ~.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 4
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156A CITY PEST. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 4
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