MILITARY TRAINING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 10

MILITARY TRAINING

MORE BENEFICIAL THAN HEALTH CAMPAIGN VIEW OF COUNTY COUNCIL L Per Puess Association.J BLENHEIM, Feb. 2. In unequivocal terms, councillors at yesterday’s meeting of the Awateru County Council expressed the opinion that universal military training in New Zealand would be more beneficial to the male population of the Dominion than the scheme introduced under the national physical fitness campaign. Councillors expressed their views strongly and all considered that the same ideals as aimed at in the fitness campaign could be attained by military training which, in addition would be a valuable asset to the Dominion from the defence point of view. A resolution embodying these views was passed unanimously and will be forwarded to the Minister oi Health. Stoats and Weasels. In view of the decision of the Au/!<laaid Acclimatisation Society to conduct a vigorous campaign for the extermination of vermin, which have constituted a great menace to game and native birds, it is advisable that successful methods of destroying stoats and weasels should be detailed, states the New Zealand Herald. It. is recommended by the federation cf North Auckland Acclimatisation Societies that the jawed rabbit trap, which snaps closed when sprung by its victim, is an efficient means of killing vermin. A dead stoat will serve as an effective lure for others of its species, which will be .acted by the scent. At the end of a run a dead stoat or other bait should be suspended some 12in. or 18iii. above the trap. If several traps are buried in a circle, with the dead animal swinging over them, the chances are that curiosity will cause live stoats to sit up and smell the other, thus coming in contact with one or more of the traps.