WILD PIGS IN FIJI
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS.
SUVA, July 25. Owing to the rapidity with which they tiro increasing wild pigs are becoming a serious menace to settlers, in many parts of Fiji, and particularly on the island of Yaiiua Levu, the second largest island of the group, The pig invasion this year lias been particularly severe in r the Dekgti district, some ol the Indian tenants losing all their hcp crops and very few escaping without some loss;
The, pigs generally come out of the bush' country and make for the settlements between, four and six o’clock in the evening, and what they do not eat they just as. readily destroy. One settler states that one afternoon he saw as many as 44 pigs, all making for one of tlie larger settlements. Some of the, big boars that have been shot weigh up to 6cwt., and it lias taken four Fijians to move them. Due to the stricter imposition of dog taxes by tlie Government many of the dogs in the, native villages have been destroyed, • and it is considered that this lias resulted to some extent in less hunting being, done by the natives, with, a consequent increase in tlie number of pigs. Organised hunting has been tog= es t e d as a means of reducing the post. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 6
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