REMOVAL DEFENDED.
PROTECTION OF STOATS AND WEASELS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 20. The decision in 1936 to remove all protection on ferrets, stoats, and weasels was not a hasty one, and the general opinion, based on all the information available, was that as a means of dealing with the rabbit nuisance, ferrets, stoats, and weasels had had no appreciable effect, said the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) at a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington to-day. Mr Parry reviewed the question at length and concluded that as a result of experience ever many years, ferrets, stoats, and weasels had not offered, and were not likely to offer, any real solution to the rabbit menace.
The Dominion President (Mr W. W. Mullmlland) said that the executive had a remit from one of the provinces defiling with the removal cf protection from certain animals which were definitely injurious to game, and had invited the Minister to discuss the question and any other questions lie had, to put before it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 192, 27 May 1938, Page 4
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