ANGORAS FOR WOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 258, 31 October 1928, Page 9

ANGORAS FOR WOOL.

START AT MORRINSVIIXE. BREEDING-CENTRF PURCHASED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, this day. Mr. W. Tangye, a well-known English sportsman and traveller, has purchased the residence and property of 20 acres belonging to Mr. R. C. Allen, I'iako, and intends to use it as a centre for the breeding of Angora rabbits for commercial purposes. Mr. Tangye states he considers the Morrinsville district ideal for the purpose. A consignment of 14 rabbits, comprising nine does and five oucks, has arrived in Morrinsville, and will be taken to the farm as soon as the rabbitry is constructed. They were chosen from the stocks of the best-known breeders in England. Subsequent consignments will bring Mr. Tangye's stock up to several hundreds.

Mr. Tangye set at rest any qualms the farmers might have that rabbits specially imported and bred for their fur would be allowed to run loose and join their plebeian cousins. The unfavourable attitude towards this new industry was incomprehensible to those who realised that, as in other countries, rabbits specially bred for their fur have as little chance of escape, under proper restrictions, as animals in the zoo. The value of these specially-imported rabbits was regarded as ample guarantee in itself that their owners would take excellent care of them.