WHAT THE RABBITS COST.
THE POISON BILL. Some ,idea:of. the-amount- of work done, and money spent in-the control of the lively rabbit, :is obtainable from •• these'"-figures, which/represent the amount and -value bf poisoned pollard distributed: during the past year in the Wellington district from the Government depot at' Masterton:—. , . Poison 'distributed, 17,0001b.';',valued at ',3d. per ..pound,,, £17-14s J 2d.;, area poisoned" at five acres; per-- pound, 85,000 acres; dis- , tributed toareas, outside"' the' district (additional),- about-. 60001b., t • J:I ■ • .This quantity ■ of: poison, is, slightly in excess of the' amount. "distributed in tho preceding year.:'" ■. Possibly - the increase was a .result:of'tho drought and. fire, which, broko up some .' or the ' rabbit ' colonies, ':and ; scattered "the inhabitants - into territdries*''not previously in'fest-cd. ; " ■ K:>:■ V'";:; -, -I
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 3
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123WHAT THE RABBITS COST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 3
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