A rabbit-trapper in the Mossburn district recently sold his catch for a month’s trapping to an Invercargill buyer, the price paid being just over £2OO. About the same period a buyer took 12,000 skins out of the Lakes district, where the best skins are obtained at £6 10s per 100, or a total cash transaction of something like £BOO. Opossums are reported to be very plentiful on the ranges in the Taranaki district, and, together with the wild goats, are causing considerable damage amongst the young native bush. A New Plymouth trapper has already secured over SO opossums on the Poakaia, some of them being very large, and having unusually thick fur.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 28
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