FORTUNE IN RABBITS.
CULTIVATION SUGGESTED. A suggested remedy for the unemployment, made by Mr R. S. Black, Dunedin, was the introduction of a better breed of rabbits into New Zealand. Mr Black pointed put that in Otago there was much waste land, some of it carrying only one sheep to ten acres. He thought that the Government should reverse its decision regarding the rabbit pest, and introduce a better breed of rabbit. The money coming into New Zealand per year for rabbit skins was about £700,000, and i' they had a better breed it would rise to £7,000,000 and give employment to 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 the skins. Mr J. Horn, M.P., said if they wirenetted a vast area on the West Coast it would supply work for hundreds of men and bring more money into New Zealand than wool. They had the greatest asset in the world in their rabbit, and if they used the country that could not be utilised at present they would obtain as much money as they had had in the time of the great goldfield rush.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5142, 22 June 1927, Page 3
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205FORTUNE IN RABBITS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5142, 22 June 1927, Page 3
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