THE RABBIT PLAGUE.
An Absurd Remedy.
The offer by the New South Wales Government of a reward of £25,000 for the discovery of an effectual method of exterminating rabbits, lias brought trouble to the New South Wales London agency, and Sir Saul Samuel is being worried almost out of his life by schemes which people keep sending him for the wholesale destruction of our poor little friend" bunny." Most of these suggestions are of the usual inventors' type, that is to say about as impracticable as they are absurd. For instance, says the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, one man proposes to fence in a large space of ground with electric wires. These wires are not only to enclose the space, but- to cross and recross in in such a way as to form a perfect tetwork. By some means, which are not plained, the rabbits are to be got Slide this inclosed fence, and Jhen elecricity is to be set in motion |tlong the wires, with the result that . the rabbits will be electrified to death, This scheme looks very well on paper, but when one comes to examine into it thoroughly, it bears a strong family likeness to the invention for catching birds'by putting salt on their tails.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2820, 11 February 1888, Page 3
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211THE RABBIT PLAGUE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2820, 11 February 1888, Page 3
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