MORE RABBITS IN HURUNUI
Nassella Board Concerned Rabbits in the Hurunui riverbed and on adjacent land are causing concert! to the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board. The secre-tary-manager (Mr F. J. Foley* reported to the board that he had written to the Hurunui Rabbit Bard complaining about the obvious increase in the rabbit infestation in the area. The rabbit board replied that it would poison the are* as soon as the autumn pasture growth declined Mr Foley said that on one property the rabbits had eaten bare newly oversown grass and oversowing on another property had been postponed until the rabbit incidence hod been decreased The board ha* a credit balance of about £12,000 but this wiH be absorbed in the first few weeks of the new financial yew with payments for wages and salaries, aerial spraying, chemical* and the new Cheviot hostel.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 3
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