MILLIONS OF RABBITS
Animals On Increase In Central Otago SERIOUS PROBLEM Dominion Special Service. DUNEDIN, March 22. Unusual seasonal conditions in Central Otago, low prices for skins, and a foreshortening of landholders’ resources because of reduced wool values have once more placed the humble rabbit iu the first flight of pests. Throughout Central Otago he can be numbered in bis millions and is seen from tbe roadside in many places iu his thousands.
Notwithstanding an annual export of from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 rabbitskins, worth from £500,000 to £750,000, the rabbit is a costly pest. It is the considered opinion of .many landholders in Central Otago that the carrying capacity of this part of the province could be doubled if the rabbits could be eliminated. “I can tell you this,” one settler said. “If I won a prize in a sweepstake tomorrow I woul'd take every hoof of stock off the place and concentrate on the rabbits for a couple of years. At 4be end of that time I would have a real run and it looks to me as if something of the kind will have to be done with the whole countryside if the rabbit menace is to be removed.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 152, 23 March 1939, Page 8
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201MILLIONS OF RABBITS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 152, 23 March 1939, Page 8
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