MONEY IN RABBITS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 January 1919, Page 2

MONEY IN RABBITS.

"While the man on the ;l^nd is deploring the vast increase in the> number of rabbits (largely caused by the scarcity of trappers owing to the war), such men as are turning their attention to the capture of the playful bunny are making much money. One trapper who put in four months' work at Macrae's Flat, away in the backblocks of Central Ofcago, •ecured (single-handed) "three bales and one bag of rabbit and hare skins. These he auctioned in Dunedin, his net profit, after all exes had been met, being £203. That is more than £12 12s a week. It seems that many of the fashionable furs, with fashionable names, and which sell at fancy prices, would be non-existent but for bunny. Of course the winter is the best time for rabbiting, the skins being then at their thickest and glossiest. In a couple of months or so the season will be beginning again, and now that the war is over more trappers ought to be available. The business should appeal strongly, to returned soldiers, The life is r#ry free and independent, and the work, as has been shown, pretty lucrative. At what other trade or calling could a man without special knowledge or skill, hope to knock up a cheque for upwards' of £200 in four months* time ?