WILD PIG BONUS
WHOLE OF DOMINION. NINE MONTHS’ SEASON. The announcement that, with the aim of keeping the wild pig menace in check, the Government has decided to pay a bonus of Is a head on wild pigs in all counties of the Dominion between June 1, 1939, and February 29, 1940, was made by Mr J. M. Ferriday, inspector of stock, New Plymouth, last Friday. Back country farmers will welcome the Government’s announcement, for wild pigs do considerable damage in rooting up valuable pieces of land, particularly on river flats. Patches of good green grass land are scarce in the back country, and the farmers suffer great loss when their land is damaged by marauding pigs in this way. Last year the shilling bonus was removed in most districts of New Zealand from the end of February. Wild pigs are to be foujid in fairly large numbers in most of the wild back country. Mr Ferriday said that the snouts and tails were to be in a green state when handed in.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4191, 31 May 1939, Page 11
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