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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 5

Our Wellington correspondent writes: — Mr. J. G. Wilson, president of the Farmers' Union, at a smoke concert held in Levin last evening, said he had a confession to make, and he was glad to be able to do so in the presence of the Minister for Agriculture. A few years ago, when a poultry expert was appointed, he, with others, had said the step was folly. "I see now," he said, "that I was entirely wrong." The poultry | industry, under the direction of Mr. D. D. Hyde, the chief expert, had made rapid strides, he added, and the farmers in the Levin distriot had an excellent market practically at their doors. A party of three duck-shooters from the Oamaru district dropped upon a colony of stoats and weasels on the banks of the' Ahuriri River last week. The neighbourhood of the camp was littered with bones, mostly belonging to water-birds that they j had taken from nests or caught in other j ways. The vermin had given up hunting and killing rabbits, which no doubt had palled on their appetites (says the North Otago Times), and had taken to trapping and killing wild. fowl. The party account, „ed for a good many of the animals.