Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1887. The Ferret Nuisance in Otago.
The Town Board of Outram, Otago, has received a petition signed by a large number of householders and ratepayers begging that the Board would pass a bye-law or take such steps as they might consider fit for the safety of the life and property from the attacks of ferrets, stoats, and weasels running at largo within the Outram Town District, and prohibit the keeping of such vermin within the Outram Town District.” The whole of the members of the Council were present and the matter was patiently and carefully discussed. The result was the passing of a resolution prohibiting any person keeping ferrets, stoats or weasels within the Outram Town District, and they also agreed to offer 2s 6d per head to any person who may find any running at large in the town district for their bringing them to the Clerk, dead or alive. If the action of the residents of Outram is to be taken as an indication of public feeling in other townships, these natural enemies will yet be exter* minated by law with as much stringency as that which relates to the rabbits.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2065, 9 May 1887, Page 2
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202Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1887. The Ferret Nuisance in Otago. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2065, 9 May 1887, Page 2
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