Hunting the Hunter.
That great hunter of rabbits, the ferret, is now the hunted in Central Otago, his enemy being man. The reason is that the skins at present have a superior market value to the pelt of the rabbit, fetching as much as 5s 6d.. The president (Mr. R. H. Mitchella) of .the Central Otago provincial council of the Farmers’ Union said at a recent meeting that what one now saw drying on fences in Central Otago were the skins of the ferret,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 8
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84Hunting the Hunter. Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 8
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