OPOSSUMS
NEW LEGISLATION REQUIRED. BY ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES. At the . Acclimatisation Societie's conference held in Wellington recently tha following recommendations were submitted to the Minister of Internal Affairs ■ for the consideration of tho Government: Thai the Government be • asked to give early and special conspiration to the urgent necessity for amendment of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, with regard to opossums, by introducing legislation prohibiting tho sale of opossum's skins of any variety during a closi season, and requiring dealers to produce evidence as to where and from whom any and all opossum skins found in their possession during the open season have been received. That the Animals Protection Act be amended in enable the GoVemojivmiCouncil to make Regulations providing for: (a) An open season for trapping or killing opossums in any particular, district or districts ; such season to exceed three months., (b) The issue of a license, at a fee to be -determined, entitling the holder to take opossums. - (c) .The manner in which opossums may be trapped or taken. .(d) An adequate penalty for any breach of such Regulations.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1920, Page 2
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180OPOSSUMS Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1920, Page 2
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