LAMBS KILLED BY BOERS
Losses among lambs owing to attacks by wild boars have been severe this season in the hack country of Taranaki, states a New Plymouth correspondent of the “Post.” In the Matau district an immense white boar which ranges in the hack hills, but which on the approach of the lambing season comes down to the clearings, has been a target for some seasons without success. One boar which was stalked and sho>t as dawn was breaking had killed three lambs. One was already eaten, and its skin was there, one was being eaten, and one was waiting to be eaten. This boar had b" menise tusks and huge trotters, the size of a c-ow’s hoofs. If the mortality rate continues, a combined effort to exterminate the boars will be made by the settlers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 2
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137LAMBS KILLED BY BOERS Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 2
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