BEER 'POSSUM

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 8

BEER 'POSSUM

; . LOCAL PEOTEOTED ABBAS. It was reported Ijy Mr, L, 0. S, Tn>p at. tJie atfiwial iaoeti«g'<)f the Ac> .lUna.tisation. Society that β-fter a. sfcreii-uafis ' fight tfe> Rwern.m»nt : h&fl been Sndweed to replace tW pro- ■ tectioft op opossuiiiß, but he added that those aniiiwls still did not gei the protectien that they ought io got. fo hoped that in this -disferiet they -woo-ki ■ shortly be «hfc ie pofsiia.de the MinJstcr io gazette ih-o kish -eo-iuitry between ; here and PaUnerstan as a* protected. ar-oa for ejiossuftw. ■ ' Tbey'.roalisfitl t.itat -ocensioH-ally opos■sums ffoiiM eat apples mid' otliw fruit, tat it was easy to trap ami poison tlieui •wlwfl. tliey bccfimo a nn-raanc-e. Tl.te, soetety li-a-d suggested that tlio GovoniBioiit E-hoH-iu fwrotlajin wrtiiin f-rait within which it slioujd bo perni-i-Bsibif) to exterminate'opossums, prttit-grov.'-ers at Farapara-wini had licW j», -j-nect-!isg and sugfiesdod ba-sindarki for m e svioh district. Oiico op.osstmis lia4 been p-rotectx'ci, Mr. Trip]*'added, onlv pevsons who hud paid $. license foe should .be iwaiiiticd lu kill them, and -the kill■ing slimi-k?' be BfiV/ntttpii ,»iily. dmim oert-ain-months .'lst the-yc ; a-i\ Tlib , ij. cense fesa. wosild pay. ranfeers Apleye-J. to' tooli ufter, tlte opos.mntt.s. uiftUiodson the prt- ef .tlrftso v }w (.raisvf i.is t-h-ff pMrsu.it.ijf tljßse : a-iikftals ■should b>' Misi-sto(l.ijpn!'i; At •uw'sent iraps wnits soi-Heti-mos set and left'for-n wcokj wiUi.tlw .result .that tfe .ivfp|.fl)«) opossniiss were ciiit-dife ii.-iui tlio.il <i ; f,s-.tsr--vatiou. .Hβ..M fenmvii o-f cases'; hi winch a- fenwle opossum hsd lieM! foiiird in a trap with aVoui-ut ens wi'its hw);.