“Road Statistics”
Whether motorists in New Zealand stopped and celebrated their kill by drinking a bottle of beer every time they ran over a rabbit or a hare was asked by a visitor to the Dominion who was taken for a drive of fifty miles along one of the main highways of Canterbury. The route led south from Christchurch, and the questions were prompted by the sight of three rabbits and three empty bottles at fair* ly close intervals on the road just south of Templeton. A count from there to Ashburton placed corpses at twenty-one and bottles at sixteen, whereupon the visitor remarked that the sportsmen must have run out of liquor.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 57, 1 April 1946, Page 5
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113“Road Statistics” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 57, 1 April 1946, Page 5
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