THE RABBITERS' OCCUPATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17884, 15 March 1920, Page 8

THE RABBITERS' OCCUPATION

' TO TB« SUITOR Sin.-r-Allow m'ij to protest against the . action of tho rtmholders in dealing -with the rabbitfirs' chcque3 in these parts. T7ie .trapper, has no option' 'where ; a cart, is available, but ranst send his catch, of rabbits to the faotory, and at the end of the month he finds that tho factory has deducted 20 i ; per cent, 4s in every potrocf, on behalf of : i tho runhokler. Rabbiting is not exactly a • parlour jramo ,and although prices are cer.tainly; good, ■ I'reckon as a -rabbiter that • when the cost of outfit and upkeep, the price of horse feed (which ,in somo cases has to bo paekcci -intlos) and tho long hours are taken inio aocoiutt, I earn every'shilling. Tho life ia hard and rough, though 'tit may'be fascinating, but the present-da v ■trapper is in it aa a means to an end. s Tho bid style "was to "go for yonr life" for a while, make a cheque and then "knock it down," but that has abandoned by all except the fools. Tho nmholder is making a good thing oirt of rabbits this fall, lmt could be half-forgivon if ho wmtld "us» to regraes some of his land. r ; ! j—I am,, atcy; ~ Btost Hmmni.. > ■ Alexahdra, -March 9- , ' V { * . [We assume that the deduction of which ' our correspondent complains is made _iri . accordance with his own arrangement with 1 tlx© runhold&r.—Ed. ,0. D.T.J