OPOSSUM IN HOUSE
Owners Find Chaos On Return
"The Press’” Special Service NAPIER. April 10.
An opossum which entered the home of Mr and Mrs J. Harris, of Clive, while they were away on holiday, ripped pictures down, tore wallpaper from the walls, dragged down curtains and scattered them on the floor, chewed furniture and tossed some 300 books from the bookshelves.
The worst damage was in one room where the opossum had apparently been trapped when the door somehow closed on it. However, before that the opossum had ranged freely and destructively through the house. It even wrenched the telephone from the wall and the connexion was later cut off by the exchange for “improper replacement of the receiver.” The time given for the disconnexion indicated that the opossum had been in the house for at least a week. When Mr and Mrs Harris returned the opossum was shot. Before he goes away for a holiday again, Mr Harris intends to put netting over the chimneys.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28250, 11 April 1957, Page 10
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