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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 5

T|ie following fable appears in the London “Evening News” of the 23rd August; Your leader “Mau Versus Nature” reminds me of this yarn, which I heard in New Zealand, so it must be true. In Hawke’s Bav years ago a settler imported a few rabbits, to remind him of England: but thee increased and overran the country. So the settlers clubbed together and sent for a shipload of cats to kill the rabbits and built little huts for them all over the sheep-runs. But '.be cats made friends with the rabbits that a new animal began to appear, the “cat-rahbit.” and this made things worse than ever. as. having claws, the cat-rabbits not onlv ate all the grass, but elimbed the trees and devoured every green leaf there was. Finallv having nothing green left to eat. they all died of scurvy! This was sent by Edward D. Banks. Nevill terrace Tunbridge Wells, a gentleman who must have a vivid imagine tion! “Times hav changed,” said <n Id Maori from Moawhango. to a Wanganui “Herald” reporter. “I well remember the days when Mr Stud holme owned the Karioi. Owhaoko and Tikitiki sheep stations. This was long before the Main Trunk railway was thought of- All the wool from the ,great merino flocks was taken to Napier, and to see a dozen Maori men in charge of string of 4UO pack-horses, each carrying t« - o small bales of wool weighing 901 b each was a sight worth seeing.” Ru». the well-known Maori prophet, from Maungakohatu, was one of the men who bandied the pack-horses, and the journey used to occupy five davs

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