THE RABBIT PEST.
DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. COUNTRY’S GREATEST CURSE. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received August 31, 11.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 31. The Daily Telegraph’s agricultural editor, in a special article on the rabbit pest, says: “The dominance of the rabbit over a great part of the best of Now South Wales has again become a national problem. In nearly every pastoral district in the central division and the highlands of tho eastern division it is numerous and increasing, and boating tho methods employed to check its increase. Tho spread of the rabbit is the greatest curse of the country today, robbing us of half of our possible pastoral wealth and entailing enormous expenditure and constant effort to keep it in chock.” | Condemning tho fallacy that the rabbit should be respected for its commercial value, the article states: “Thirty million rabbit skins have been sold so far this year in the Sydney market. That number of rabbits would displace at least two million sheep. How many rabbits must the State be depasturing to the displacement of stock when that dumber of skins is sold in tho Sydney auctions alone.”—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 490, 31 August 1922, Page 5
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