THE RABBIT PEST
| .By Telegraph—Press Association Timaru, June 14. A meeting of farmers and pastoralists to-day discuss(«:l tlie rabbit menace, now admitted to lie eorious over latge areaa I in South Canterbury. The consensus of opinion was that simultaneous poisoning i was the only effective means of reducing ! • tho pest. At Fairlio and Albury voluntary rabbit committees have been doing good ivorlc by precept and example, and the meeting decided to recommcnd that such committees be formed wherever | necessary, in preferenco to. statutory .boards, and to ask the Government to in- ; crease its staff of inspectors to assist by j advico and pressure to secure co-operation and bring the negligent to book, commiti tees to assist in the latter duty.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 8
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120THE RABBIT PEST Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 8
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