DESTRUCTION OF RABBITS.
TRAPPING CONDEMNED. WARNING TO RIVER TRUST. (Per United Press Association.) - CHRISTCHURCH, July 7. While in favour of the Waimakariri River Trust’s rabbit control policy, Mr G. Shipley, a member of the Waimairi County Council warned the trust that at its meeting to-day of the serious consquences that would result if extensive trapping were permitted on the area under its jurisdiction. Mr Shipley said that it was only a question of time before this county would be overrun with rabbits, for at present some of the trust’s tenants were permitting trapping on their funs. In his opinion there was only one satisfactory method of coping with the rabbit problem and that was by poisoning. Mr F. G. Tlorrel, speaking in support, said that ho knew from personal experience that what Mr Shipley said was correct. On runs in Southland where trapping was prohibited, there were few, if any, rabbits. Mr Shipley was thanked for his warn-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19836, 8 July 1926, Page 10
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158DESTRUCTION OF RABBITS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19836, 8 July 1926, Page 10
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