BAN ON RABBITS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 20

BAN ON RABBITS.

PROTEST BY CANTERBURY BREEDERS. At'tlx© North Island Rabbit Boards' Conference, held in i eliding on June Uth, remits were passed as folio wb:— 'lhat the whole .North island bo included in the same rabbit board area; that the Government so enact that no permits be issued for keeping Chinchilla or Angora rabbits m raouit board districts." The Canterbury Rabbit Breeders' Association discussed this matter at t,W dASSS XiX WrigJit, said that immediately he had been informed of the na«s. ing of the remits he had taken it w himself to write to the Prime l£n?sbre'edfrs woSVft Canterbur y rabbit Breeders would feel very stronelv on the subject. Accordingly he wrote to tiie. North IslL F RabSi l&'dt tion. Most of the members were Dartpression, satisfactory iJ future, while at the same i. ne ?j affirs a ■ssE-a-"® trusted that the Gover™,™^ & ar&rid w«H to detrimental to tb^.^'

The officers of the like the Prime, Minister an opportunity - of. m«tingJM|i explaining more fully Otherwise they would be assurance that the drastic JgHH ferred to would not ''reoCT^Mßß ' This Prime Minister hadrroMß he noted the objection o' nH tion in reference to the. rfjn«H would for consideriMMH given ,to their representatta|j|U Some ' discussion Wright's statement, and £»§|9H writing to the Prime unanimously endorsed. tliffHH decided that every member sociation should write to thgHH of -Parliament. for -his„ distafgHH the matter before him, ana|ra|M that a deputation be on the Prime Minister wtmHH visited Christchurch. MeCPfIHH | agreed to mention in question of the import atio&jMH breeds of rabbits into the'ffHßM