FARMING OF FURRED ANIMALS
OFFICIAL OPPOSITION IN N.Z.
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 31. Fur farming is not practised in New Zealand, but there have been persons wishing to try it. The Department of Industries and Commerce told a Board of Trade inquiry today that there had been applications in the past for permission to set up fur farms in New Zealand, involving a wide range of animals, such as beaver, musk rat, silver fox, hamsters, and chinchilla. The department reported that it was not Government policy to encourage the further introduction of fur-bearers, whether in farms or in the wild, and though there was no objection to these animals in farms, there could be no guarantee that, once introduced, some might escape and thereby become established in the Dominion. “The uses which can be made of rabbit skins are so varied and so extensive that the rabbit has become of major importance in the fur .industry, and there is hardly a branch of the fur trade that does not find a use for it,’’ stated the report.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27443, 1 September 1954, Page 12
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