The opossums in the bush near some of the New Plymouth gardens are proving very destructive (states the "Taranaki Daily News")- One gardener, who generally has a fine Uisr play of roses, found the young shoota disappearing, so he watched one night and found the guilty parties were the marsupials, which, in recent years, have multiplied considerably, and are> becoming a very real pest. Vegetable gardens also suffered in the early spring, whilst some residents who have fruit trees are contemplating cutting them down altogether on account of the depredations of the opossums. Yet the law protects the opossum, and people are fined for killing the pest. "As well protect stoats and weasels," observed one irate gardener to a reDorter.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17933, 29 November 1923, Page 2
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