NEW ZEALAND RABBITS
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DUNEDIN, June 9. The introduction of a better lire of rabbits into Now Zealand was suggested as a remedy for unemployment yesterday by Mr R. S. Black at a presossional conference. He pointed out tliat in Otago there was much waste land, some of it carrying only one sheep to ten acres. Ho thought the Government should reverse its decision regarding the rabbit pest, and introduce a better breed of rabbit. The money coming into New Zealand for rabbit skins wins about £700.000, said Mr Black, and if they had a better breed of rabbit it would rise to £7,000,000 and give employment to a lot more men. There was a growing demand for rabbit skins, but the breed was wrong. If they introduced the Chinchilla rabbit they would get £1 each for skins. Mr J. Horn, M.P., said that if They wire-netted a vast area on the West Coast it would supply hundreds of men, with work, and bring more money into New Zealand than wool. They had the greatest asset in the world in their rabbits, and if they used the country that could not be utilised in other ways at the present time, they would obtain as much sioney ns they bad got in tlie time of the great goldfields rushes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1927, Page 4
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