THE RABBIT PEST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 16, 24 February 1914, Page 6

THE RABBIT PEST.

To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —I have noticed in your columns during the last few days letters from landholders in. the Rakaia district, pointing out that rabbits have in-, creased enormously lately. That may be so, and it is of course very much to be regretted," but perhaps there is an aspect which ,has_ not occurred t& many of your readers who are interested in the matter. It is only on the lighter land that rabbits are seen in such numbers, and as this country is for the most part in large holdings,the cost of exterminating them is too large in propcrtiotiHo the receipttsfrom the country.' \lf " the Department 1 does - make a raid on this district, I fancy there are, a numbeivoT farmers who will have .their already limited incomes dwindle down to almost' vanishing point.—l ain, etc., ' RAKAIAITE. Rakaia, February 2.3, 1914.