Aerial poisoning to clear opossums

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33881, 28 June 1975, Page 17

Aerial poisoning to clear opossums

Aerial poisoning to control opossums is being undertaken in two major areas of Westland, according to a senior ranger of the New Zealand Forest Service (Mr M. F. O’Reilly).

Aerial poisoning of the. Otira River Catchment wash the final phase of a series of;; poisoning programmes to re-; duce the number of noxious;, animals in Arthur’s Pass], National Park, he said. j. Poison will also be laid in Granville Forest as part of the bovine tuberculosis era’-., dication scheme, Mr O’Reilly ‘ said. In Arthur’s Pass the poi- ■ son will be carried by fixed;; wing aircraft, and chopped' carrot bait impregnated with 1080 poison will be laid. The| ; area will cover 13,000 acres, of the catchment. After aerial poisoning in), Granville Forest ground con-; trol parties will undertake

,hand poisoning, shooting and • trapping between the Grey land Ahaura Rivers, he said. Ground control is also • continuing in the Inchbonnie |- Lake Brunner - Taramakau area. Sour taste Angry French winegrowers yesterday' poured • 33,500 gallons of imported ' Italian and Spanish wines into the soil, in protest I against cheap wine imports. ; About 100 men halted four ; tankers at Carcassonne, and emptied their contents by the roadside.—Carcassonne, ! June 25.