OPOSSUM SEASON
POOR- ONE IN WELLINGTON,
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Sept. 16
The opossum trapping season in Wellington Acclimatisation, district ends to-day. It lias been an unusually hard one for trappers as opossums have diminished in. number and the market is weak. The season wap extended for a fortnight, as during the first two weeks, trappers out on the Tararuns and other mountainous districts were so badly snowed out that they could not find their traps. In some instances they had to abandon their camps in the bush owing to the severity of the weather. The territory had been so heavily trapped during the last four or five years that the number of skins taken is not equal to the ‘‘bags’ of several past seasons. Some people consider it imperative that there be no trapping at all next year. The market is lower than it has been for several years.
Last year skins averaged 7s 6d to 10s, and super suality realised 235. So far as the market has been tested this year, skins have averaged about Gs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 5
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