RABBITING.
A PAYING BUSINESS. Among the most industrious people in Otago at the present time are. rabbit trapper--, and well they might be, as with the present price being: paid lor the furry pest—up to "id a pair—trappers are making as much as X2 a day, while schoolboys are finding trapping a source of big pocket money. It is a common sight on many a farm in the south to see lights. moving about the hills at niglfts—the lanterns carried by boys inspecting their traps. Tho factories are said to be very busy, the packers l>eing kept going until midnight. The heat c.f last week—Wednesday win probably the warmest day experienced tliir or last year —had a. bad effect on some consignments, leading to a large percentage of rejects. While trapping is being vigorously carried on farmers are not neglecting the work of poisoning, so that this season's campaign against the pest should have the effect o£ considerably reducing if. It is well that it should be so, as rabbits are too plentiful in Oiago, ev i on arable country near the coast.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 12
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183RABBITING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 12
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