RABBITS’ HAVEN
Huts Provide Shelter
The Banks Peninsula Rabbit Board has asked the Wairewa County Council to change its building by laws so that the board will be able to deal with rabbits on better terms.
The board has great difficulty in flushing out rabbits living in warrens under huts and baches in the county. The council permits owners to build huts and baches with their foundations one foot above the ground. This allows rabbits to breed in comparative peace. The board has asked the council to insist that owners be compelled in future to put netting around the foundations of new huts to a depth of one foot under the ground. The council decided to tell the board that it would discuss the problem when it began a review of the building by-laws.
An interim measure suggested by one councillor was that owners keep cats. “We have six cats and no rabbits on the whole property,” he said.
Practice Games.— New Zealand’s softball team for the World Series in Mexico City next month will plav practice games against a combined Wei-lington-Hutt Valiev side on October 1 and 2. The team flies from Auckland on October 6.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 16
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