ON THE INCREASE
WILD PIG PROBLEM COROMANDEL PENINSULA RUINING GRASS ON FARMS Explaining that the wild pig menace had become so serious on the Coromandel Peninsula that grasslands were being very badly affected, Mr W. Hamilton Snr., at the September meeting of the Thames District Council of Prim--ary Production urged that the Government be urged to pay a subsidy on all pigs killed similarly to that paid on rabbits and wild deer. 'Mr H. S. Curtis' in supporting- Mr Hamilton said that although thp settlers were killing pigs every day and. some had killed over 1000 pigs in the past year the number was still on the increase. Some settlers were killing as many as four to six pigs each day, using a slasher but the pigs were increasing in numbers.
Mr Hamilton said he was willing to supply a free house to anybody willing to take up the job of killing pigs under a Government subsidy scheme. It was agreed: to contact the Government on the subject.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32479, 13 September 1944, Page 8
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