The probability that from 50,0C0 to 60,000 skins would be taken in the Wellington district wa9 forecasted in the report of Mr T. Andrews, the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s linger, in his report on the recently dosed opossum season (state® the Evening Post). Though there had been many disappointments, he sAid, some of the experienced trappers had done well. ‘Tve been practically a teetotaller for uie last fortnight I was in Ashburton. Not that I couldn’t get it. There a more ‘booze’ there than there is in Christchurch, I know it about it. There are plenty of sly-grog shops there too.” This statement was made by a man who Nros charged with drunkenness and theft at the Magistrate • Court at Christchurch (reports the Preai).
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Otago Witness, Issue 3783, 14 September 1926, Page 61
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