SLAUGHTER OF OPOSSUMS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13735, 29 May 1913, Page 6

SLAUGHTER OF OPOSSUMS.

PROTEST AGAINST INDISCRIMINATE KILLING.

[United Pkess Association.]

Wellington, May 28

-.'At a meeting of- the Yv'eUmgton- Acclimatisation Society to-night a resolu-| tio:i- v.-:-.s adopted uVging the Govern-n-ent to discontinue t-he imwise policy, of allowing the indiscriminate slaughter. of opossums'in districts such ris Para-' paraumu, wht-re they are doing no-'. d'uiiage, 'and-"that, in -the opinion of this meeting, these valuable _ animals should be protected,, and allowed to 'bb"'shot or trapped during a regular ■season of not .more than three months in winter, and only 0:1 tlio payment of a separate license fee."_ It was urged that"by this means n-n industry of impoi*tanco would be created.