Rabbit Eradication ‘Still Far Away’
(New Zealand Press Auoclatlon) INVERCARGILL, July 2. Eradication of rabbits was as far away as ever it had been, the Director-General of Agriculture (Dr A. T. Johns) said at the annual conference of the South Island pest destruction boards in Queenstown today.
In the foreseeable future, rabbits would remain a threat to agriculture unless there was some unexpected development, Dr Johns said. He called on boards to press for greater efficiency and effect Boundary anomalies should be resolved and smaller boards should consider amalgamations, he said. The association's president, Mr R. A. Chaffey, of Waiau,
said that more than a million rabbits were killed by pest destruction boards in the South Island last year. This figure was a conservative estimate, based on an uncompleted survey. “Unfortunately;” Mr Chaffey said, “the rate of breeding in South Island rabbits is terrific. It must be realised that the enormous number killed represents only an annual crop."
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32030, 3 July 1969, Page 1
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