STOATS AND WEASELS.
QUESTION OF PROTECTION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 26. An assurance that the decision in 1936 to remove all protection on ferrets stoats, and weasels was not a hasty one and that the general opinion, based on all the information available, was that the various methods that had been tried as a means of dealing with the rabbit sance so far as ferrets, stoats and weasels were concerned had had no appreciable effect, . was given by tlm Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. \V. E Parry) when discussing the question at the meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers Union at Wellington to-day. Mr Party reviewed the question at length, and concluded by submitting that he had said enough to prove that, as a result of experience ober many years, x ferrets, stoats and weasels had not offered and were not likelv to • offer any real solution to the rabbit menace. The Dominion president (Mr W. W. Mulholland) said the executive had a remit from one of the provinces dealing with the removal of the protection from certain animals which were definitely injurious to game and had invited the Minister to discuss that question and any other questions he had put to put before it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 2
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