If occasionally native birds are destroyed in the traps of opossum hunters it may be said that the destruction is easily offset by the valuable work done by the trappers in ridding the bush of vermin that prey on the bird life (says the Eltham Argus). Very, interesting information is disclosed in a return received by the secretary of the Lake Rotokare Reserve Board (Mr H. Murray) from an opossum trapper, who was in the reserve for some three months. Included in the season’s catch were 260 rats, five cats, and five stoats.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 74
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