OPOSSUM MENACE
It is proposed to introduce regulations permitting a five months’ open season for opossums and to allow the shooting of these pests with .22 rifles, states the Forest and Bird Society. It is feared that the giving of permission to use small-bore rifles in the bush will give the pigeon poacher an excuse for his being in the bush with a .22 rifle, without adding to the means of lessening the numbers of opossums, because these animals, being nocturnal in their habits, are rarely seen in daylight, while at night time they move rapidly. It is impossible to see the sights of a rifle in the New Zealand bush at night—not even on a moonlight night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 3
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118OPOSSUM MENACE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 3
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