OPOSSUM POACHERS
TWO TRAPPERS CAUGHT [Pkr United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 21. Spurred by tbo knowledge of the good prices obtainable for skins, some opossum trappers decided to emulate the “ early bird,” and did not wait for tbo official date of tbo opening of ibu trapping season in tbo Wellington acclimatisation district. Hangers, suspecting that the occupants of a camp in the Wairarapa were engaged in poaching opossums, paid a unheralded call, and found 254 skins, which they seized. The two campers subsequently faced the magistrate, who ordered them to pay lines of £5 each, and directed that the skins lie forfeited. _ Those wore subsequently sold, and realised 7s each, the fines and receipts from the sales going into the Acclimatisation Society’s 1 coffers. The season begins on July 1, [ and lasts six weeks, and a license costs I 60s, in addition to which Is per skin I royalty has to he paid. The number ! of licenses issued this season is 254 1 a record.. The skins bring good prices, | and it is recorded tlntt some which wero j sold by trappers for a. few shillings two i seasons ago were shipped to New York, •where they realised £3 10s each. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 10
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201OPOSSUM POACHERS Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 10
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