MONEY IN RABBITS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1927, Page 12

MONEY IN RABBITS

TRAPPER’S BIG EARNINGS

SYDNEY, May 5. There seems to be more money in rabbit trapping nowadays than in some of the overcrowded professions, to gain admission to which involves not only a big outlay, but also much hard study. Take, for example, the case of a ten-year-old boy who has been earning a little pocket money in the Mudgee district of New South Wales. His rabbit trapping for two weeks brought him £2O. How many skilled artisans or men imprisoned in offices all day get that much in their pay envelope in a fortnight? Rabbiters right through the Mudgee district are earning big money by trapping what, on the table in Sydney, is popularly known as “underground mutton.” Two youthful trappers, striking a particularly good patch, secured rabbit skins worth £4OO in five weeks. In other districts trappers are making big money. The fact that, in the suburbs of Sydney, housewives have to pay from lid to 1/- for a rabbit, is surprising, in view of the fact that the country is swarming with the pest. The maledictions which are poured upon the rabbits by the men on the land are seemingly counterbalanced, from a strictly humanitarian point of view, by the benedictions which are being bestowed upon them by the trappers.