FIGHTING RABBITS
AUSTRALIA'S BIG PROBLEM
NEW VIRUS NOT RELEASED
Eor years past Australian pastoralists have been promised that they would be given a virus which would assist them in combating the rabbit pest, which annually costs the Commonwealth millions of pounds. Recently an apparently most successful virus has been tested on an island off the coast of South Australia, and it seems certain that, although deadly to rabbits, the germs will not affect other livestock, birds or humans.
It was hoped that this virus would have been made available on the mainland ere this, but the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research will not be in a position to make a recommendation to the Government until the experiments at Wardang Island have been carried still further.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)
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126FIGHTING RABBITS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)
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