Rabbit Increase During War Years
The difference the war years made to the rabbit population of New Zealand was strikingly illustrated by Mr H. E. Crosse at Hastings in evidence to the Royal Commission on Sheep-farming. He mentioned that whereas between the years 1902 and 1939 the kills varied only between 100 and 200 "a year, when he returned to Patoka Station in October, 1944, he found rabbits everywhere, and from then on they came “like a dirty mountain torrent in flood.” Mr Crosse said that for the years 1945-47 no fewer than 120,000 rabbits had been killed on Patoka, and the indications were that the 1947-48 kill would be about .75,000.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 6, 11 October 1948, Page 3
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112Rabbit Increase During War Years Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 6, 11 October 1948, Page 3
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