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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 3

A new way for dealing with the voracious bunny, and a most suciessiid way (reports the “Napier Telegraph"). This is how one man has tackled the problem. When night comes he sets out in a motor-car fitted with a good light, which can he worked like a searchlight. The car is driven slowly and quietly through the paddock. When the light falls on the rabbits they la-come dazzled and hypnotised. and then a repeating pea-rifle which shoots quietly, comes into play. The rabbit when shot is retrieved by another lad. who stands on the fontIxiard with a long Dole, with which lie draws the dead bunnies within reach, or dispatches them if m -os-ary. How SiR-cesstul this method is can b, uu derstond from the fact that one evening’s work of a few hours resulted m a bag of 252 rabbits.

A stormy Atlantic voyage ending m her being stooped by ice. was the experience in January of the steamer Willastown. which arrived at Aw>: land from St. John’s and New h'R recently (says the “Herald V over n week the vessel was among tU it e and cm January 25th. sue was « ,m----pletclv surrounded near Hie Cana nan coast.' In this plight she put -<'r-.n y a wireless call to lend and the Uuanian Government ice-breaker Aloiue.i m. steamed out twin Svdnet. N* -- 111 - wick to break a passage ihruugli I-a-frozen barrier. The Willasum was escorted into port and arrived wita wven feet of water in one o her hold through damage to several plates in her severe buffeting.

\V IK.TITRKI) SPTN'I-:. ciliuSTCiirP/’H. April 22. \s the result of an X-ray exannuntibn, T. H. (Ireenfell. n member of the New Zealand Rowing; crew has been ordered into the hospital for a year tor spinal trouble.