MILLIONS OF RABBITS
ANIMALS ON INCREASE IN CENTRAL OTAGO. Electric Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN. March 22. Unusual seasonal conditions in Central Otago, low prices for skins, and a foreshortening of landholders’ resources because of reduced wool values have once more placed the humble rabbit in the first flight of pests. Throughout Central Otago he can be numbered in hi s millions and is seen from the roadside ir. many places in his thousands Notwithstanding an annual export of from 12,000,000 to 15.000,000 rabbit.skins. worth from £500,000 to £750,000. the rabbit is a. costly nest Lr. is the considered opinion of many landholders in C entral Otago that the carrying capacity of this part of the province could be doubled if the rabbits could be eliminated. “I can tell you this,” one settler said. “If I won a prize in a sweepstake* to-morrow I would take everv hoof of stock off the place and concentrate on the rabbits for a couple of years. At the end of that time T would have a. real run and it looks to me a s if something of the kind will have to be clone with tlie whole countryside if tin* rabbit menace is to be removed.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14090, 23 March 1939, Page 5
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