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CRULETY TO RABBITS.

Auckland, March 20. Extraordinary revelations regarding the methods adopted by rabbit-trappers were made in the Police Court today, when a rabbiter was charged on the information of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with keeping live rabbits with broken legs. Defendant admitted the offence. Mr Matthew said there were features connected with the case that his Worship had never dreamt of. The defendant was a rabbiter at Karaka, which was almost uninhabited. He caught rabbits, among other ways, in rat-traps, and in nine cases out ot ten their legs were broken. The wounded animals were then placed in a cage until there were enough of them to send to town. The defendant stated the custom was a usual one in Australia, and no notice was taken of it. He had no desire, however, to disobey the New Zealand law.

His Worship said that the act of catching rabbits in such a manner was, of course, cruel, and must nut be done. It had, however, been done more or less thoughtlessly. For that reason he would convict him, and order him to pay costs (325).

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1022, 23 March 1912, Page 3

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CRULETY TO RABBITS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1022, 23 March 1912, Page 3

CRULETY TO RABBITS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1022, 23 March 1912, Page 3

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