RABBIT BREEDERS.
CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON
A conference of delegates representing the commercial rabbit breeding industry opened in Wellington on Saturday. The Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, in welcoming the delegates, said he realised that the commercial rabbit industry would be of very great importance in the days to come. The climate of Ne-vy Zealand was very suitable, and lie was confident that if the Angora wool and Chinchilla pelt industry was strongly organised and concentrated on a central sale it would be all to the good. In New Zealand they had been relying too much on wool, mutton, butter, and cheese, the four major industries of the country, and they had been overlooking such industries as honey producing, pig raising, and poultry breeding. Now commercial rabbit farming had been introduced. He understood that at the present time there were approximately 15,000 Angoras and Chinchillas in the Dominion, and that, providing the industry was successfully organised, the income from commercial rabbit farming in New Zealand would reach the astounding figure of £50,000 per annum.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 4
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