WILD PIG MENACE.
WANGANUI RIVER DISTRICT. HEAVY ROSSES OF LAMBS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, this day. A settler from the Ahuahu Valley, up the Wanganui River, brought into town to-day 100 wild pig snouts to deposit with the authorities and to claim the Government bonus of 1/ per snout. The wild pig is a sore trial to settlers in that part of Wanganui's hinterland. The losses of lambs in some cases represent 50 per cent. One settler has killed over 150 pigs, and another 250, and it is estimated that not less than 1200 have been killed already this season. The wild pigs' depredations are carried out at iiight3 and settlers have perforce to meet the difficulty by hunting by night as well as day, strong torches being used in the evening to locate the pigs when they are bailed up by the dogs. So serious is the menace that settlers are willing to assist shooting parties by accommodating them at nights.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 8
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