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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 63

A well-known Timaru land and estate agent recently informed a Herald representative that for some time past he had been kept busy. His returns of business transactions for this year compared more than favourably with those of last year for the same period. He stated, further, that there was a decided improvement in the land market, and this he interpreted to mean that conditions were shaping for the better. A man who has been in Southland trapping opossums for some months went into the Christchurch Sun office the other evening with the skin of a white stoat that he had caught. These small animals are known as the New Zealand ermine, are extremely rare, and are found only in snowy regions. The skin, which had just been cured, was beautifully soft, and measured about 15 inches by 4 inches. The trapper set the value of the skin at about £2.