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OPOSSUMS IN CANTERBURY (Special to the Herald.) GHKi STUM U MUM, t his day. It was disclosed at last night’s meeting of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society that opossums in Canterbury are not on the decrease. The Otago Acclimatisation society wrote that the season for the trapping of opossums being over societies which had these animals within their districts no doubt would have collected information as to whether the animals were scaroe or still fairly numerous. The evidence gathered by the Otago society was conclusive that the animals had become scarce. Th.it fact suggested* that a. close season should bo obser\ed year or that the season be limited to aboqt half the usual term. It was decided to reply that opossums were not decreasing in the Canterbury society's district and therefore the council did not favor a close season or a limited season.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 7
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149NOT ON DECREASE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 7
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