Visitors from Napier to Waikaremoana over the Christmas season expressed themselves as amazed at the numbers of oposums inhabiting the bush in tho lake region (states the Telegraph). The little denizens of the bush are comparatively tame and are easily seen about nightfall." They have bred very quickly .in this region, arid, despite the amount of trapping that is done by licensed, professionals during the open season, their numbers do not seem to decrease. The Public Works Department has protected the little mammals against the danger of electrocution, all poles carrying power lines in, the lake area being fitted with zinc bands to prevent tho ’possums climbing on to the crossbars and coming into contact with the live wires.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 17
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