RABBITS BILL.
READ A SECOND TIME
AMUSEMENT IN THE COMMONS.
(Australian Press Association.) LONDON, May 7
The House of Commons read a second times the Rabbits Bill, which enables authorities fo exterminate rabbits when their become serious. ■ The House found the bill most difficult to debate with becoming seriousness. , , ' Mr T. Johnston, Labour member tor Dundee, supported the bill, adding that a good remedy for rabbits would be to encourage poaching. Sir Newton Moore, Conservative member for Richmond, said that rabbits had once been treated as a nuisance in Australia. It was now a source of wealth, some of the best canned chicken from Australia was really rabbit (laughter). Mr F. A. Macquisten, Conservative member for Argyll, said that three of the worst nuisances in the Highlands were bracken, rabbits and the steamboat traffic. Hares did less damage than rabbits.
Mr J. Wheatley, Labour member for Shettles'ton, interjected: Are you referring to the electric hare ? (Laughter). Hon. W. E. Guinness, on behalf of the Government, said that there was no denial of the damage done to agriculture by rabbits. The bill was read a second time without division.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1928, Page 7
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