MENACE TO SETTLERS.
WILD PICS IN THE NORTH.
(Special to the “Guardian.”) WANGANUI, October 30.
A settler from Aim Aliu Valley, up the Wanganui River, brought into town to-day 100 wild pig snouts to deposit with the authorities and claim the Government bonus of one shilling per unit. The wild pig menace is a sore trial to settlers in this part of Wanganui’s hinterland, whose lamb losses in some cases represent 50 per cent. Another settler has killed over 150, and yet another 250, while it is estimated that not less than 1200 wild pigs have been killed already this season. Wild pig depredations are carried out at nights and the settlers have perforce to meet the difficulty by hunting by night as well as by day, strong torches being used iu the evenings to locate, the pigs when they are bailed up by dogs. So serious is the menace that settlers are willing to assist shooting parties by putting them up at nights.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 17, 31 October 1929, Page 3
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