“One ranger reported that of 103 shooters checked, 66 had licenses, and the rest were ‘shooting for hares an 1 rabbits,’” said Mr. C. M. Gordon secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, at a meeting of the council. “A third of the people out shooting are ‘shooting rabbits,’ but they will take a shot at anything that gets; up, he added. Members from North Auckland stated there has been more trouble this season with alleged rabbit shooters than ever before. According to the latest figures from the Customs and Excise Department, the amount of beer drunk in Britain in 1935 was 575,164,000 gallons.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 26
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