STOATS AND WEASELS.
The advisability or otherwise of introducing the stoat and weasel as a destroyer of the rabbit has at at various times bee i under contemplation by the New South Wales Agricultural Department. In the annual report of the stock branch ot which was laid on' the table of the State Assembly recently, it was stated that information had been obtained from different sources as to the habits of those animals. That obtained from New Zealand was to the effect that they had become a peat, pnd, apart from the destruction of v rabbits it was stated they had killed numerous* young lambs and were very destructive on native birds and domestic pDultry It had therefore, now been definitely decided against their importation anywhere in the Common- ' wealth.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9654, 19 November 1909, Page 4
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130STOATS AND WEASELS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9654, 19 November 1909, Page 4
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