RABBIT DESTRUCTION.
-The failure of the experiments at Bioujrhton Island, New South Wales, with Dr Danysz's system of destroying rabbits by means of a disease spreading rapidly amongst them, but not communicable to Lirger animals or human beings, does not excite gre it astonishment in New Zealand, although most landWdeis in this Dominion are as anxious as the pnstoralists of the Commonwealth to discover a simple and effective method 1 of coping with the pe&t. The treatment by disease does not commend it-islf here as it does in Australia, where the rabbit*, establish themselves in dense hordes, without its being known whenco they came, and often disappear ab buddenly, leaving no sign of whither they have gone. The -opinion haa been expressed in these columns that a bolter knowledge of the natural history of the rabbit will be the first step to effectively dealing with the rodent a* a pest,
and the magnitude of the curse ehouWfc warrant international action being takes in this direction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 6
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