“MUST LIVE WITH HIS TRAPS”
RESTRICTION CRITICISED.
It is stated that opossum-trapping is going to be a pretty hard business for those who happen to secure (by tender) blocks in the City Council’s Wainui or Orongorongo country, apart altogether from the strenuous character of the country in the upper Orongorongo.
One of the regulations states that a trapper may not set up a camp within the watershed of either stream mentioned. That means (so The Dominion is informed) that he will have to camp either over the top of the ridges of the range that marks the boundaries of the watershed or below the Wainui reservoirs and the intake dam at Orongorongo.
Under such circumstances it is pointed out by experienced trappers that one half of the short days of July and August will be spent on the tramp between the camp and the trap-lines—which would mean a loss. A trapper (our informant says) must live with his traps, and, in a short season of six weeks, cannot afford hours a day getting to and from his camp.
