MAORI RATS
16 Trapped F< Study “Trie p is” Special Service Auckland. May 25. Sixteenlflaori rats (kiore) are now jp their way from the Hen Chicken Islands to the fammal breeding station offce Otago Medical School at fcieri. They w* trapped by Mr J. Campbel a botany student at Victoria University, who has been making a special study of ti> kiore for the last 18 month. It is ; difficult study because th* rats are found only in Fiorcand and on some islands. Mr ad Mrs Campbell were meibers of a survey party th; has just returned from 10 days’ camping on Hen Islad. The paty was organised by Mr D. VMerton, of the Wild Life Divion of the Department 0 Internal Affairs, chiefly i study the rare North Isind saddleback. The kite, once thought to be extint, was found on White Islid in 1940. Mr Camjlell said the kiore, brought to New Zealand by the Maoris and regarded by them as a ielicacy, was not vicious likethe ship rat and for this reson had not survived on tb mainland.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 9
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