AGAINST FOXES.
INTRODUCTION OPPOSED. (Special to the “Guardian.”) AUCKLAND, April 11. “The introduction of foxes mto New Zealand for any purpose would be such a pernicious action that the farmers of the Dominion would he fully justinea in taking direct action and killing them wherever they were to be found, stated the secretary of the New /upland Farmers’ Union (Air A. E. Robrnson), in commenting to the Auckland Fur Club that foxes should be bred in New Zealand for the fur trade. “Sufficient harm has already been done by thoughtless and wanton experimenting with imported animal lite in New Zealand,” he said. ' In considering the industrial aspect of the question, Air Robinson was of the opinion that the prospects ot fox farming becoming a profitable undeitaking were almost illusory. With the industry already well established in Canada and other countries, there was no reason to believe that New Zealanders could successfully compete with them. Furthermore there would be in New Zealand difficulties concerning an adequate food supply.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 155, 12 April 1930, Page 4
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