RABBIT BOARDS
Sir,—Your correspondent. “ Where there is no vision, the people perish, endeavours to create the Impression that all rabbit boards In Central Otago are a decided failure. Long before our late but not lamented , La ,b°ur Government had its half-hearted ideas about rabbit control, boards were formed in various parts of the farming and fruitgrowing areas. Due to the many years If hard work, those places are now comparatively free of the pest As a result, production figures have far surpassed even the most optimistic estimates made in the oast. The portions of . Central Otago that today are over-run with rabbits have been that way as far back as I can remember, the fault being that the people concerned, In most cases, were content to farm the rabbits and not treat them as a pest to be completely destroyed. If under the old system the job was Impossible, how on earth can your Jporrespondent expect the newly-formed boards to succeed in the few months they have been operating? He apparently would prefer, for some reason, to see the whole of Central Otago .once again a feeding ground for rabbits. Fortunately there are many of us who will r ®£ent any such moves and retain our rabbit boards to keep our properties as they m »- free of rabbits.—l am. etc.. Vision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27276, 30 December 1949, Page 6
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