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DEPREDATIONS OF RABBITS MORE EFFECTIVE MEASURES ADVOCATED P.A, WELLINGTON, Nov. 20. The deterioration and depletion of the high country, and the resultant rapidly accelerated erosion caused by rabbits were stressed by Mr D. McLeod, of the South Island High Country Committee, giving evidence at to-day’s resumed sitting of the Royal Commission on the sheep industry. He recommended that the Rabbit Act be completely redrafted, that : a complete system of continuous com- * pulsory rabbit boards be established"/ to cover the whole South Island, that the Act provide for the decommer.-: f cialisation of the skin or carcass, that , the subsidy system be adjusted and extended, that wages paid to workers be based on results where local conditions required it and that research be undertaken to finfl improved methods of rabbit destruction.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26624, 21 November 1947, Page 8
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132EROSION ACCELERATED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26624, 21 November 1947, Page 8
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