BRER BABBIT.
FOSTERED BY THE TRAPPER.
"The compulsory abolition of rabittrapping," was a somewhat startling proposal advanced in tho Houso of Representatives last evening by Mr. R. Scott, member for Otago Central. Rabbits had increased to an enormous extent in Central Otago during the last few years, he went on'to remark. It wa3 not that tho landholders were not anxious to keep the rabbits down. The increaso in the number of rabbits was really to be attributed to the fact that such a good .market existed for their skins. Rabbit-trapping in the high country was tho yery best way of increasing tho number of rabbits. Every rabbiter was out against every enemy of . the rabbit. ' Wherever rabbittrappers had been employed the number of rabbits had increased enormously. Wherever rabbit-trappers had been kept away: and xelianco had been placed upon poisoning and "digging out" tho rabbits had been got rid of. .Mr. Russell: Wliy is it that the rabbit industry exists only in Otago P Mr. Scott said that the industry existed also in Southland and in Canterbury.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 10
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177BRER BABBIT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 10
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