A RABBIT TRAPPER’S TRIALS
Sir/—I have trappers on areas situated round Dunsandel and Hororata. Since the would-be week-end sportsmen are mean enough to take my rabbit traps and put sticks and stones on them and spring them, I am afraid I shall have to stop trapping unless they can realise, after reading thia letter, that a man’s living and tools of trade are at the mercy of anyone that desires to take them. Some are not content with taking the rabbit traps but put broken bottles on the tracks where my motor joggers are operating. I wonder if I took all the valves out of the tyres of every shooter’s car how they would like it. It would not be as bad as my situation. A little trouble such as I get might make them realise that men’s living is at stake. Rabbit traps are unprocurable and secondhand ones fetch 10s each in open market.—Yours, etc., _ A F. A. RUIMBLE. Dunsandel, May 5, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 5
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