NEW RABBIT POISON
SUCCESS OF WAIRARAPA EXPERIMENTS (New Zealand Press Association) MASTERTON, August 11. The first experiments in New Zealand with a new poison, sodium fiuoracetate, have been conducted by the Wairarapa East Rabbit Board, with outstanding success. An officer of the board said the experiment with “1080” had been conducted in a very difficult area, in hill country south-east of Masterton, and he estimated that the kill of rabbits had been 98 per cent, on a block of between 300 and 400 acres. He estimated that “1080” was about 10 times as potent as strychnine. It is tasteless and colourless, and was used with carrots or jam. As was the case with strychnine poisoning, no hawks or other birds appeared to have been killed by the poison, developed in the United States and manufactured there and in Britain. Sodium fiuoracetate has been used in Tasmania for about a year, and many observers believe it has great possibilities in the New Zealand campaign against the rabbit.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 6
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