DROUGHT BRINGS HARVEST OF RABBITS
Drought along the Darling River in New South Wales gave rabbit trappers a harvest. Wire netting pens were constructed in fences around water holes and thirst drove the rabbits into them. Men mgde up to £125 a week, and a boy of nine £l7 in three days.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 1, 20 June 1949, Page 4
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52DROUGHT BRINGS HARVEST OF RABBITS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 1, 20 June 1949, Page 4
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