BRER POSSUM.
«- STORY- OF A CONVERSION, Reports regarding opossumg have been reoeived by the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. H. D. Bell) from a number of Crown Land rangers who were instructed to interview settlers on tho subject. Theso reports tho Minister intends to lay beforo the acclimatisation societies, but in mentioning this fact to a reporter yesterday, he was careful to add that ho did not intend to reopen tho question of protecting opossums. "I have taken tho protection off opossums," he remarked with finality, "and they will remain unprotected." , Mr. tells a story of one settler whose opinion of opossums has undergone radical alteration. Some time ago a number of settlors in the neighbourhood of Paraparaumu sent, in a petition to the Minister asking that opossums should be protected, as they did harm. Tho other day one of. those who signed the petition wrote stating that opossums had "skinned" all his fruit trees, and demanding that his signature, to tho petition bo struck out.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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167BRER POSSUM. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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