THE RABBIT PEST.
(Per Press Association.) Napier, last night. Mr G, P. Donnelly, who has just returned from a virit t > Inland Paten, writes very strongly to the press about the way the rabbit pest is spreading on the Owhnoko native block recently abandoned by Messrs Studholmo Bros, and also amongst the Ruahine and Kaweka ranges. He urges prompt and decisive action being takeD, and.assistance being given to the settlers to cope with the pest, otherwise a further largo area of native land is likely to be abandoned, as tho natives- will be unable to pay rates and taxes on it, and tho expense of destroying tho rabbits will then fall on the State.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 3
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114THE RABBIT PEST. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 3
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