NEW RABBIT POISON.
REDUCING RISK TO GAME BIRDS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 27. An arrangement lias been come to between the Departments of Agriculture and Internal Affairs which should lessen the toll by poisoning of native birds, pheasants, and other game birds. Instead of phnsphorised pollard for the destruction of rabbits in a large part of the wide area of the Rotorua acclimatisation district, turnips and carrots soaked in a solution of strychnine will be used. The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) said to-day that he felt that the new method of dealing with the rabbit pest would not only save many hundreds of native and game birds, but would be as efficacious in killing rabbits as pliosphorised pollard. “I suppose it would be a rare find,” remarked Mr Parry, “to come across a regular game sportsman who bad not at some time, when travelling over the fields of the north, found a pheasant or two poisoned by eating pliosphorised pollard. The game branch of the Department of Internal Affairs has been trying for many months to bring about the change of poison for rabbits now happily decided on.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 15, 28 October 1938, Page 3
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