— Digging common briars from hedgerows, wrapping the roots in straw, and hawking them from door to door as “rose trees” is one of the newest i rms of fraud in England. The first sod of the Rotorua-Taupo railway was turned unofficially on Wednesday. Work was commenced five miles out. Men are being put on as the work opens up. and accommodation is provided. So far there have been no reports of big catches of opossums in the' district in the immediate vicinity of Wanganui (says the Wanganui correspondent of the Dominion). One farmer .at Maxwell is reported to have trapped 100 on his farm, and another in the locality states that he is not trapping on his farm this year, in order to give the opossums a reasonable chance to increase.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 38
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