PITCH PESTS
RABBITS AND "RABBITS"
POISON AND PROSECUTION
The report of the principal of the Hutt Valley High School (Mr. J. N. Millard) contains the following paragraph:—
"The work on the grounds suffers to some extent from two pests that we find it hard to get rid of. Babbits are causing a lot of trouble, and practising golfers are also proving a nuisance. It is almost incomprehensible but, nevertheless, true that some people have so little respect for other people's property that they choose a private cricket ground to practise the art of divot carving. The rabbits have been giving trouble for years, and they seem to be increasing in numbers. Unfortunately, they always burrow in any fresh ground, and they are particularly attentive to the wickets whenever they have been top-dressed. Before the holidays they-made a burrow several feet long near one of the wickets. I have asked the groundsman to set a trap for them, but rabbits that manage to survive in the middle of a populous borough are naturally wily animals." It was decided, if legal, to poison the rabbits and-to-prosecute the others.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 10
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186PITCH PESTS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 10
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