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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 17 September 1909, Page 3

The protection of kangaroos, for three years has met with great disfavour among the landowners and hunters of the district" (writes the Loutli <:orerspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald"). "The red kangaroos are so numerous in some paddocks that they not only eat a great quantity of pasture, but damage fences. Ac many as 300 in a mob may be eeen a few miles out of Louth, and o great number of these ar« killed, by poisoned water set for, the extermination of 'bunny 1 ; consequently several pounds' worth of skins are going to waste. Instead of the protection given them the landowner are endeavouring to havo them declared a noxious pest, in order to check their great J}Bin£ers._J3evoral shooters and trappers have 'been'mak" ing good money out of the red kangaroo, ana as one has only to go out a few miles to observe their great numbers and depredation, the wisdom of protecting them in these districts is very questionable."-