WILD PIG MENACE
WANGANUI RIVER DISTRICT A settler from the Ahuahu Valley, up the Wanganui River, recently brought into Wanganui 100 wild pig snouts to deposit with the authorities and to claim the Government bonus of Is per snout. The wild pig is a sore trial to settlers in that part of VVanganui's hinterland. The losses of lambs in some cases represent 50 per cent. One settler has killed over 150 pigs, and another 250, and it is estimated that not less than 12C0 have been killed already this season. The wild pigs' depredations are carried out at nights and settlers have perforce to meet the difficulty by hunting by night as well as day, strong torches being used in the evening to locate the pigs when they are bailed up by the dogs.
So serious is the menace that settlers are willing to assist shooting parties by accommodating them at nights.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17099, 4 November 1929, Page 12
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152WILD PIG MENACE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17099, 4 November 1929, Page 12
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