RABBIT PEST FIGHT
N.S.W. GOVERNMENT’S ACTION. SYDNEY, January 10. From £200,000 to £250,000 will shortly be made available by the State, Government for combating the rabbit pest. The Minister for Labour and .'lndustry (Mr Dunningham), who is chairman of the Unemployment Relief Council, stated to-day that application forms for advances had been prepared and, subject to the approval of the Advances to Settlers’ Co-ordination Board, -money would be made available without delay. The Unemployment Relief Council originally allocated £600,000 Tor advances to settlers i’o r reproductive work and this amount was recently increased to more than £850,000. Of this, £400,000' already ha® 'be?a expended,'- > while £150,000 has been ear-marked to assist the dairying industry. This loaves a balanc e of £300,000, of which at least two-thirds will. be insert to check the inroads of rabbits.” The maximum to each applicant will be £SOO, of which four-fifths may be spent on wire netting, and the ; 'rest on ■poisoning land «jiggJ)n.g out. Tfi e advances will be repayable in lo years, the interest rate being 3 pe r cent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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177RABBIT PEST FIGHT Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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