RABBITS AND THE UNEMPLOYED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 14

RABBITS AND THE UNEMPLOYED

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have read in your columns two letters on the above subject, and I believe the time is ripe for the rabbit inspectors to get moving and justify their jobs. This district is noted for its rabbit farmers, as; most of the socalled farmers do their own rabbiting—rabbiting in the winter, and allowing the rodents full scope for breeding during the spring and summer. We see the case of one farmer trying to keep his rabbits down while they are being farmed all round his boundary fences. His task is hopeless. There is one man in this district, a so-called sheep farmer, who does Ms own rabbiting. During the last three months he has been so busy rabbiting and chasing unemployed so-called poachers off his property that he has allowed almost all his hoggets to die, although there is an abundance of lucerne hay stacked on his property. This man is too busy skinning rabbits to skin his sheep. He is alleged, to have said that he was not going to let Mr Savage get anything if he could help it and that Savage was not getting anything out of the sales of his rabbit skins. In this district it seems that no man dare look at a rabbit on the property of these hungry so-called sheep farmers.—l hm, etc., August 14. „ Disgusted Farmer.