RABBIT PEST CHECKED
CANTERBURY'S FORTUNATE POSITION (.Special to tee * Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, April 14. All of Hie .stock inspectors in tho Canterbury-Kaikoura district liavo reported to the Department of Agriculture that there lias been a marked diminution in the number of rabbits in the areas under their control. An officer of the department claimed yesterday that there was not a property in Canterbury now that was really badly infested with rabbits; in fact, many rabbiters were unable to obtain blocks on which to trap or poison where thev would obtain a payable number of skins. .So spnrce was the rabbit population on some large holdings that farmers were compelled to pay men to trap or poison when this was deemed necessary. Cases were quoted of settlers a few years ago being compelled, because of the number of rabbits, to leave farms, which, to-day, were practically free of the pest. Their natural enemies are also said to bn causing great mortality among the young rabbits
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Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 4
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163RABBIT PEST CHECKED Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 4
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