ILLEGAL TRAFFIC
IN OPOSSUM SKINS
DISCLOSURES BY N.S.W. POLICE.
(Australian Press Association)
Received this day at 10.1-5 a.m.)) SYDNEY/ August 16.
Local detectives working in conjunction with Scotland Yard have unearthed -an extensive .illegal traffic in opossum skins, which have been shipped to London, either as rabbit or fox skins, secreted in wool bales. The slaughter of opossums is prohibited in New South Wales, and heavy fines are provided. Detectives estimate as the result of their investigations of the books of certain firms in Sydney that at least tone hundred thousand skins were shipped overseas surreptitiously since 1931, the value of which, despite the depressed market, is in the vicinity of £30,000. Evidence had .been procured that motor lorries, brought the skins from the country to the. city by night to ail organisation, run on systematic lines.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 5
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137ILLEGAL TRAFFIC Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 5
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