OPOSSUM TRAPPING
BAD SEASON IN WELLINGTON SERIOUS PRICE-FALL Press Association WELLINGTON, Today, j The opossum-trapping season in the Wellington acclimatisation district j ends today, it lias been an unusually i hard one for trappers, as the opossums have diminished in number, and the market has been weak. The season was extended for a fortnight, as during the first two weeks the trappers out on the Taramas and other mountainous districts were so l-.dly snowed in that they } could not find the traps, and in some instances had to abandon their camps in the bush owing to the severity of the weather. The territory has been so heavily trapped during the last four lor five years that the number of { skins taken did not equal the bags of i several past seasons.
Some people consider it imperative that there should be no trapping at all next year. The market is lower than it lias been for several years. Last year skins averaged 7s Gd to 10s. and super quality realised 235. So far as the market has been tested this year, skins averaged about ss.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 11
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