A Proposed Rabbit Day.
It is proposed to add another to the list of red-letter days in the Australian calendar. The suggestion is made to hare a Rabbit Day. The Colonial Treasurer (says the “ Sydney Morning Herald”) who is responsible for this project, finds as the result of his recent visit to Cowra that rabbits art plentiful, and are creating great havoc in the distiict. Mr Weddell does not believes in the uiility of wire-netting, on which sc many thousands of pounds have beer spent. He says that it has been discov .•red that poison is the most successfu means of exterminating them. Holding however the opinion that concertec action is absolutely necessary, hi thinks it would bo a good thin; if the Government had power t( proclaim a Rabbit Day once each month On this day each landowner would be re quired to take every means in his powei to destroy the rabbits, failing which hi would be liable to a fine, By this means the sanguine Minister considers, the pes would be extermina ed in a very shoil imo.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 August 1901, Page 4
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181A Proposed Rabbit Day. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 August 1901, Page 4
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