THE ÜBIQUITOUS BUNNY.
OVERRUNNING NEW SOUTH WALES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, August 31. The agricultural editor of the Daily Telegraph, in a special article on tne rabbit pest, says that the dominance of the rabbit over a great part of the best land of New South Wales has again become a national problem. Tn nearly every pastoral district in the central division and the highlands of the eastern division it is numerous and is increasing, beating the methods employed to check its increase and spread. The rabbit is the greatest curse of the country to-day, robbing us of half our possible pastoral wealth, entailing enormous expenditure and constant effort to keep it in check. Condemning the fallacy that the rabbit should be respected for commercial value, the article states that 30,000,000 rabbit skins have been sold so far this year in the Sydney market. That number of rabbits would displace at least 2,000,000 sheep. How many rabbits must the State be depasturing to the displacement of stock, when that number of skins were sold in the Sydney auctions alone.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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179THE ÜBIQUITOUS BUNNY. Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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