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Originally Posted by caspian pugh
I must take you to task on the marsupial content of your lovely islands. If you go down to the woods today you may be in for a surprise - for although NZ has no indigenous marsupials, there are numerous populations of introduced wallabies living in the wild as well as millions of Common Brushtail Possums, which were introduced by enterprising islanders wanting to start a fur industry.
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Oh, you must mean North and South Island. We of the people's republic of Waiheke Island rarely go there and we pay them little mind, although at present they all seem to have come over here. Rush minute in town was 15 minutes of each hour on News Years eve when 5,000 of them came over for a party at Steven White's vineyard and we are told the island sank a couple of inches until they went home in the wee hours of the new year. But they are not allowed to bring their marsupials over here, or their stoats, ferrets, deer or cruise ships. There is no tunnel nor bridge from their shores to breach our defences.Our woods and beaches remain pure. We maintain our standards. We defend our island whatever the cost may be; we fight on her beaches, in fields, in streets and on the hills, and we shall never surrender to a marsupial, no matter how cuddly they may appear.