Rabbits
There arc unamiablo failings which, in Pope's phrase ' we first endure, then pity, then embrace.' Rabbits in those countries appear to be evils of this kind. We hired Pasteur to show us a way to exterminate the pest ; we have spent many millions sterling in poison and wire netting for their especial behoof ; and now at length we have come to look upon the ' varmint ' as one of our national assets. In the three years 1899, 1900 and 1901, New Zealand alone exported 16,209,200 frozen bunnies 'in the skin.' In addition to these, no fewer than 20,704,549 rabbit-skins were exported during the same period, representing a value of £179,853. The frozen rabbits exported in 1900 and 1901 brought over a quarter million sterling into the country. John Bull has a line taste in the matter of rabbit, and the plump, green-fed New Zealand variety seems to ' touch the right spot ' in him every time.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 16 April 1903, Page 17
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155Rabbits New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 16 April 1903, Page 17
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