THE RABBIT MENACE
IMPORTED NATURAL ENEMIES NO APPRECIABLE EFFECT (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 26. An assurance that the decision made in 1936 to remove all protection on ferrets, stoats, and weasels was not a hasty one and that the general opinion based on all the information available was that of the various methods that had been tried as a means of dealing with (he rabbit nuisance, ferrets, stoats and weasels had had no appreciable effect was given by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry) discussing the question at a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to-day.. Mr Parry reviewed the question at length and concluded by submitting that he had said enough to prove that as a result of experience over many years ferrets, stoats and weasels had not offered and were not likely to offer any real solution of the rabbit menace.
The Dominion president (Mr W. W. Mulholland) said the executive had a remit from one of the provinces dealing with the removal of protection from certain animals which were definitely injurious to game and had invited the Minister to discuss that question and any other questions he had to put before it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 14
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