OPOSSUMS.
INCREASING AT PARAPARAtTMTJ. Opossoms are steadily on the increase in the Paraparaurou district. In order to keep these animals'from becoming troublesome to settlers on small properties the Council is trying to procure from the Minister of Internal Affairs authority to open a season from June'2nd to July 31st, 1919; the license fee to be £1: the limit of skins per license to be 30; no permit to sell to be issued; no trapping to be carried on, as the Animals Protection Act, as- at present constituted, does not permit of any trapping. The animal must bo shot in the head with a-pea rifle, as is done in South Canterbury. This method leaves the skins uninjured, and is carried on in daylight The council considers that the proposed license season will keep the animals from becoming a nuisance—will enable the local "authority to control the operations, and will eliminate the cruelty inseparable from the use of traps. It will also provide some revenue to the society, and will assure the taking of the skins when in full fur.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 4 June 1919, Page 4
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178OPOSSUMS. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 4 June 1919, Page 4
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