5232 Opossums in Three Months
K7TR. G. G. ATKINSON, chief ranger to the MR. Egmont Park Board, after an inspection of the opossum menace on the West Coast of the South Island reported to his Board that the southern rata in bloom would not be seen again, and that one man on the West Coast trapped 5232 opossums between January 12 and March 16 of this year, his biggest kill in one day being 235.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 105, 1 August 1952, Page 12
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