THE RABBIT PEST
INCREASE IN OTAGO
/ (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ; DUNEDIN, March 22.
\ Unusual seasonal conditions in Central Otago, low prices for skins, and a foreshortening of landholders’ resources because of reduced wool values have once more placed the humble rabbit in the first flight of pests. Throughout Central Otago he can be numbered in his millions and is seen from the roadside in many places in his thousands.
Notwithstanding an annual export of from 12,000,000 to' 15,000,000 rabbitskins, worth from £500.000 to £750,000, the rabbit is a costly pest. It is the considered opinion of many land-' holders in Central Otago that the carrying capacity of this part of the province could be doubled if the rabbits could be eliminated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 3
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120THE RABBIT PEST Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 3
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