THE RABBIT PEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 10 March 1891, Page 2

THE RABBIT PEST.

At a meeting of the Otaraia and East Coast Babbit Board, held on Saturday, it was decided :—That this meeting re-affirm the Board's former opinion touching the absolute madvisability of using traps, and that the sub-committee appointed to wait upon the Minister of Lands lays this resolution before him. That trapping rabbits for market or for preserving tactories, will not tend to diminish the rabbit pest in any way. That no remedy is permanently efficacious unless it tends to the direct diminu - tion of the young litters of rabbits below the ground; traps of all kinds simply acting in catahing the old rabbits or natural enemy. That poisoning alone cannot be considered an effectual iemedy, but that each land owner should turn out a few stoats, weasels or ferrets annually. That settlers again start breeding ferrets for tame use or turning out purposes, there being considerable difficulty in obtaining stoats and weasels. That settlers insist upon their rabbiters keeping and using tame ferrets. That it is not advisable to use large packs of dogs in hunting after poisoning, but that a man with two or three dogs, a tame ferret,

a few nets, a gun and a small pick will clean country far better and more effectually than relying solely upon a large pack of dogs.