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kill opossums at any time without penalty, but he must report the same to 

 the local postmaster. He further approves of the suggestion made by the 

 Otago Acclimatisation Society to stock the forests on both sides of the 

 great Alpine Range with opossums, and estimates that the fur trade would 

 soon reach a value of £200,000 a year. 



As an outcome of this report Regulations for the taking and killing of 

 these animals appeared in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of 

 May 5th, 1921. A licence fee of £2. 10^. entitles the licencee to take or 

 kill opossums; a royalty of i^. per skin shall be paid to licensed brokers, 

 who shall pay a licence fee of 21^., and shall receive 5 per cent, commission 

 on the royalties collected. Every skin shall be stamped on payment of the 

 royalty fee. Exportation of skins must be with the consent of the Under 

 Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs. 



Following on this Gazette notice the month of June, 1 921, was declared 

 an open season, several hundred licences were issued, and many thousands 

 of skins were obtained, the exact number not being obtainable at the date 

 of publication of this work. 



APPENDIX B 

 LATER RECORDS 



JDuRiNG the progress of this book notices of many new species, especially 

 among the Insecta, have been received, together with later accounts of 

 those already referred to. As it was impossible to incorporate these into 

 the text without disturbing the paging of the book, they have been collected 

 together into an appendix, and each entry gives the reference to the page 

 where it should be interpolated. 



p. 241 Quinnat Salmon 



Mr Ayson, Inspector of New Zealand Fisheries, informs me that while 

 the run of this salmon in 1918 and 1919 in the Waitaki River was very 

 small, so much so indeed that some people thought they had disappeared 

 altogether, that of 1920 was quite large. Salmon are now running in several 

 rivers to the north as far as the Waiau, and quite recently they have 

 been reported from the Wairaripa in the North Island. These fish must 

 have spawned also in the Hokitika River on the West Coast, as young 

 salmon, only a few inches long, have been taken there. 



During the present spawning season (1921) about 1,133,000 ova have 

 been collected at the Hakataramea Hatchery, and fish from 4 ft. to 4 ft. 6 in. 

 in length have been seen right up to the foothills of the Southern Alps. 

 The run of fish this year in the Waitaki is quite phenomenal, and they are 

 also showing up in the Clutha River in the south. The Quinnat Salmon is 

 evidently firmly established in the South Island. 



