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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 9

Mankind has sought out many. invention!!for tiro destruction of tho rabbit, anid tho ktcst has . becai patented and is soon to.bo placcd on tho market by-Mr. It. li. Hunter-; Wcstoii, of Cottosbrook, Middleittarch' (reports tho "Otago. Daily, Times"). It is called tho 11. \Y.-rabbit exterminator, and consists of a brass cylindor containing bi-sulphato of carbon. At the foot of tbo cylinder a long tubo protrudes at right naiglos, at tho oxtromity of which is a minute aperture through which a. jet of hi-snlphate of carbon is discharged nt tho .will of tno manipulator. Tho tubo is inserted into tho holes and tho action.: is • instantaneous. The affair •ia simplicity,- itself, arid does not get out. of ordeov, It is easily portable, only weighing 731b.,' and thero is no. small ajid' no wasto. Tho. affair beforo being jra-fected w-as tried by tho. Department of Agrieultui®, which even,- tlion • pronounced it a sncores. l ' 'Tho"spray is ejected _to a. distamoo of 12ft.,-. • which'"onsurw tho' getting,in as fur ao possiblo, although burro'va ,iro novar straight.