ONE MAN RABBIT WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

ONE MAN RABBIT WAR

. PREHISTORIC MOUND SAVED* A British Government rabbit-g^^jf,'. who wears a uniform of office, Wellman, has saved a huge prebis«™ . earthwork, Maiden Castle, near Chester, from destruction. ..iif" i Antiquarians thirty ye*rs ago with dismay the great caves that ** thi'-~'9 had burrowed in the ramparts °* .| a structure, threatening 10 spoil its . contour. When later, as '*® monument, it was taken> over Office of Works, Wellman was to clear out the rabbits. He •: waging War against theal^wer/^^^jjj and there are now very few * e £* '. l Wellman first drove the rabbit* ground by the aid of ferrets - forced into the holes a mature '5 iTttdtfStli? • tar and paraffin. When he fully treated one section » to£| of.;- i netting over it to prevent the • Jaf *jj the' rabbits. '/■: The* honorary curator of Museum, : Capt. J. E. the success of the camis, j« tWWv,--: out however, that the rat) # rowing under the turf na<* light some wonderful mi<». '^ ' museum there is a ■fisu«^ , < 'j|mßK*;y. the Bronze Age. which hafl out by ; rabbits in thstr