FIGHT AGAINST RABBITS
Science is being called in to fight New Zealand’s rabbit pest. In a statement this week, the chairman of the New Zealand Rabbit Destruction Council (Mr G. B. Baker) said that the Department of Agriculture had a toxicologist at Wallaceville Laboratory, who was working on new and improved poisons and fumigants in laboratory and field tests. Rabbit board inspectors and farnjers who felt they could make some contribution toward this research should send their observations to Wallaceville, added Mr Baker.
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is working on a long term plan of research into rabbit destruction. This may lead to virus or some other form of controL
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26319, 13 January 1951, Page 5
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