When it is stated that in the 1926 season 38,000 opossum skins were taken in the Wellington, acclimatisation district, and that last season (1927) 36,000 skins were take©, with 36 less trappers than I ere in the field the previous season, it must be patent that the opossum is very firmly established in this district (says the Dominion). The average number of „ skins secured per trapper last season was higher than the year before, and consti*. tuted a record
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Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 73
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