OPOSSUMS ON KAPIT
(To the Editor.) Sir, —It must have come as great a surprise to all lovers of native _ flora and fauna/ as it did to me to read in an article in Wednesday's "Post" that opossum! had been introduced on'-Kapiti Island. It will perhaps not be allowed by some that 'possums are guilty of eating birds' egs; it must be admitted, though, • that they do inestimable damage in frightening at nesting time and in eating the young shoots and berries of trees. At the advent of this animal on the island, then, Kapiti ceases to be sanctuary. "Can the swallow rear her young when the hand of the spoiler is nigh?" The time is not far distant, sir, when the entire clearing out of ogossum and deer will surely havo to be considered. Our afforestation schemes and our own regenerating forests cannot hope to succeed when we have deer ring-barking and opossum destroying the young growth.—l am, etc., AOTAKX
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 8
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161OPOSSUMS ON KAPIT Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 8
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