The rabbit boards in New Zealand are perturbed at the possible danger resulting from the importation and breeding of Angora and Chinchilla rabbits. At a conference to be held at Feilding next month four remits bearing on the subject will be brought forward. One from Kiwitea has been aimed at preventing the breeding of Angora rabbits on a lapge scale at Waioura and one from Cheltenham holds that these animals are very likely carriers of foot-and-mouth disease.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 9
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