does the appointment of numerous honorary rangers seem to cope with the trouble to. any appreciable extent. The only solution of the problem seems to be a more drastic penalty imposed by law, and a 'system* of towards to police officers who are able itor catch the offenders.
The- • experience of - tine wholesale slaughter of the opossum, principally by ! i cyanide poisoning,*' is sufficient evb dence. of the necessity of more drastic fiction to conserve the wild life of the, community. A Valuable industry ha’s\been ruined 1 a.nd the: stock to opossuSp has been so depleted that it will take years before they will again be iin sufficient numbers' to make trapping a. payable employment. And so'it goeis on. While certain' members of -the community are making efforts to’conserve, others are out to destroy. It':is not yet too late to repair the chi mage, or perhaps curtail the further destruction o' our w : ld life, and every effort in this direction should be-strongly supported.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1932, Page 8
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