Only One Way To Get Rid Of Rabbits
INVERCARGILL, .Tune 30. "One of the main planks in ttie policv of the council is to oomhat The conimercialisation of the rabbit which has boen tried for 00 years and lias failed. All the authorities. are agreed that the onlv way to deal with the rabbit is to regard him as a pest with no value, ' ' said Mr. G. B. Baker, chairman of the Xew Zealand Rabbit Destruetion Council in an address at the annual eonferencp 'of the Southburn! Rabbit Boards ' Council today. Mr. Baker said the rabbit was a menaee not only m Xew Zealand. Britain itself was in a iness with rabbits and they were proving a serious drain on primarv production there. If Britain could get rid of her rabbits it was estimated that in two years she would save £40.000,000 in food imports. Rabbits were costing New Zealand about £3.690,900 or £9,000,000 a year in loss of foodstuffs apart from the damage the rabliits were doing m the way of soil erosion. If thov could get rid of raltbits in Ihe British Empire, it might be possible to dispense with the iniportation of food from dobar eounries. Cp to the present the methods of dealing with rabbits in Xew Zealand had failed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1949, Page 5
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