VALUABLE SKINS
TOSSUM TRAPPERS BUSY ATTTWTAT.S NOT 80 Opossum trappers hl the Wanganui ■district have been securing fairly good catches, but reports indicate that the animals are not so plentiful this year ,as previously. Nevertheless numbers of skins have been secured, particularly in the Makirikiri and Long Acre valleys. Most of the aposnums taken nave been of the beautiful silver grey kinds, the district not exhibiting so many of the cheaper browns and blacks, which colours are assumed by the older animals. The facts that the opossums caught are fewer in number and those which have been secured are younger animals will no doubt support the claim of the Forest Service that its unheeded plea for a close season, was more than justified. The chief supporters of an open season were traders and royalty-receiving acclimatisation societies, supported by those who hoped that the opossum would not survive and that the sooner it was extinct the better for the binds the bush, and the fruit. The magnitude of the opossum trappiftg industry in New Zealand is indicated by the fact that last year a total of 150,000 skins was secured*.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19933, 31 August 1927, Page 8
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189VALUABLE SKINS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19933, 31 August 1927, Page 8
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