RABBIT PEST IN THE SOUTH
«, SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FROM TRAPPING BY Telegraph.—Press association. Christchurch, July 7. While in favour of the Waimakariri River Trust’s rabbit control policy, Air. G. Shiplev, a member of the Waimain County Council, warned the Trust at its meeting to-day of the serious consequences that would result if extensive trapping were permitted on the area under its jurisdiction. Air. Shipley said that it was only a question of time before this country would be overrun with rabbits, for at present some of the Trust’s tenants were permitting tf-JP" ping on their runs. In his opinion there was onlv one satisfactory method of coping with the rabbit problem, and that was by poison. Air. F. G. Horrell, speaking in support, said that he knew from personal experience that what Air. Shiplev said was correct. On runs in Southland where trapping was prohibited there were few if any rabbits. Mr. Shipley was (hanked for his warning.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 253, 9 July 1926, Page 8
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