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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 8

Visitors from Napier to Waikaremoana over the Christmas season expressed themselves as amazed at the numbers of opossums inhabiting the bush in the lake region (states the “Telegraph”).' The little denizens of the bush are comparatively-. tame and are easily-seen about nightfall. they have bred verv quicklv in this region, and, despite the amount, of trapping that is done bv licensed professionals during the open season, their numbers do not seem to decrease. Ihe Public Works Department has protected -the opossums against the danger of electrocution, all poles carrying power lilies in the lake area being fitted with zinc bands to prevent the ’possums climbing on the crossbars ami coming into contact with the live wires.