OPOSSUM TRAPPING
SEASON NOT GOOD AUCKLAND RESULTS (Special to (lie Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Opossum trappers in Auckland province have not enjoyed a good season this year. Wet weather, a scarcity of animals in a number of districts and lower prices for skins seriously interfered with trapping and caused a number of trappers to cease operations before the close of the open season on August 31. Up to the present 9500 skins have reached the Auckland office of Dalgety and Company. Limited, which handles 09 per cent of skins from opossums caught in the province, compared with 10,000 skins for n similar period last year. A tofal of 19,353 opossums was trapped in the Auckland province last year, the Dominion total being about 200,000. There is little prospect of these figures being reached this year. Overseas markets for opossum furs have recently been depressed and the demand from the Continent, which was formerly an important, buyer of New Zealand skins, shows no revival.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 3
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