"PERNICIOUS SCHEME"
IMPORTATION OF POXES. (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The introduction of foxes into New Zealand for any purpose would be such a pernicious action that the farmers of the Dominion would be fully justified in taking direct action and killing them wherever they were to be found, stated the secretary of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr. A. E. Robinson, in commenting on a suggestion by Mr. Cambie to the Auckland Fur Club that foxes should be bred in New Zealand for the fur trade. "Sufficient harm has already been done," said Mr. Robinson, "by thoughtless and wanton experimenting ■with imported animal life in New Zealand, although rabbits are now coming under control. We can have no guarantee that foxes introduced would not becomo a greater pest than rabbits." Mr. Robinson asserted that the Fanner's' Union unanimously and wholeheartedly would oppose any move to introduce" foxes into New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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153"PERNICIOUS SCHEME" Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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