’POSSUM POACHERS PUNISHED
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 21. Spurred by the knowledge that good prices were obtainable for skins, some opossum trappers decided to emulate the early bird and did not wait for the official date of opening for trapping in the Wellington acclimatisation district. Rangers, suspecting that tho occupants of a camp in the Wairarapa were engaged in poaching ’possums, paid an unheralded call and found 254 skins, which they seized. Two campers subsequently faced the Magistrate, who ordered them to pay fines of £5 each and directed that the skins bo forfeited. They were subsequently sold and realised 7s each. Pines and re ccipts from the sales went to the Acclimatisation Society’s officers. Tho season begins on August 1 and lasts six weeks and the license costs 50s, in addition to which Is per skin royalty has to be paick The number of licenses issued this season (254) is a re- ’ cord. The skins bring good prices and it is' recorded that some which were sold by trappers for a few shillings two seasons ago were shipped to New York, where they realised £3 10s each.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 2
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189’POSSUM POACHERS PUNISHED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 2
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