HEAVY LOSSES.
PLAGUE OF RABBITS. Farmers in East Anglia Chief Sufferers. TRAPPING UNPROFITABLE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 25. A "Daily Telegraph" correspondent says that a rabbit plague is causing severe losses to farmers, especially in East Anglia, which is over-run. Mr. S. Radcliff, ex-president of the National Farmers' Union, ascribes the plague partly to mild springs and hot summers but chiefly to the low price of imported rabbit meat making trapping unprofitable. He points out that Britain imported £570,000 worth of frozen rabbit in 1934, and suggests a heavy tariff on imported rabbit meat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 7
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