RABBITS IN OTAGO
Sir,-yYour issue of January 21 contains an article by "Sundowner" in which he mentions the almost total disappearance of rabbits from Central Otago, during the decade 1900-10. The cause, he ays, was unknown, Here is an answer. About 1905-06 a terrific snowfall occurred (June 9). At Bannockburn and Cromwell the snow lay a foot or more deep for six weeks. At Naseby it was four or five feet deep;
at Nevis five to 10 feet. Nearly all rabbits were destroyed. Later there was a big rise in the price for rabbit skins. I was born near Cromwell and lived the first 39 years of my life entirely in that district, and was there during that snowstorm.
LOUIS F.
PARCELL
(Stoke).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 5
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