OPOSSUMS.
(To ihp Kdiior). i Sir, i notice by Ihe report of the last mooting of the Horo"\yli.(jnua Fruitgrowers' Association that a resolution was passed to (he cited that the Association is .strongly against the importation of opossums to tin's district. I suppose that this was because they have, boon reported as fining great damage to the fruit crops at i'araparauniu ami Wailcanae. Well, this is not right; they have done very little damage iliere; mid here they would do m>l liing. At Waikanae (lie hills ;m- within half a mile of lhc> town, and (here is plenty of rover for. (he li((| c animals quite flose to orchards and guvflens, but here the. hills arc iles away, and if the opossum was liberated (say) up the Ohau river, he would not become a nuisance, but a great asset: and furthermore, would make land that is practically no value worth something.—-Yours, etc., MARSUPIAL.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1913, Page 2
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