OPOSSUM MENACE: COMMENT ON RECENT MEETING
“As long as the opossum skins are lucrative on realisation, I don’t think that distance will stop the trapper from getting the skins. The whole point is to keep the price at a level where it is an inducement to the trapper to catch them,” said Mr P. J. O’Regan (Inangahua) at a meeting of Federated Farmers (West Coast) yesterday when a report was received, on the recent conference of local bodies to discuss the opossum menace on the West Coast. “It was a ‘wash-out.’ There was not one point on which the Wild Life Division officers enlightened us,” remarked Mr W. Clayton (Ahaura) in reporting on the conference. Opossums, he said, were breeding by the thousands in the back country, and, although there was some poisoning being done, the poisoning might be doing more harm than good. Mr J. R. Silcock (Inangahua): The opossum travels miles overnight. He is a more serious menace than the deer. He starts at the top and eats everything.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1950, Page 4
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