RABBITS FOR CANADA
1,000 FROM AUSTRALIA FOR BREEDING FUR AND CARCASE INDUSTRY SYDNEY, Sunday. What the British Columbia At-torney-General, Mr. R. N. Pooley, describes as “the maddest scheme,” is that an order has been given by Government officials in British Columbia for the shipment of 1,000 live rabbits from Sydney to Vancouver with a view to breeding and the establishment of a fur and carcase industry in Canada. The arrangements are in the hands of Mr. H. Norton, a Sydney merchant, who sa} r s a. good edible and fur-bear-ing rabbit was considered a most desirable acquisition in Canada. There is no restriction on the entry of rabbits to that Dominion, though Mr. Pooley declares that this shipment will not be admitted. The indigenous “jack rabbit” of Canada is generally unfit for consumption. It is proposed to release the shipment from Sydney on several of the numerous islands between Victoria and the mainland. Mr. Norton says he believes the Australian rabbit is an asset, not altogether a menace.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 697, 24 June 1929, Page 9
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168RABBITS FOR CANADA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 697, 24 June 1929, Page 9
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