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Southland Times, Issue 19102, 21 November 1923, Page 6

Some months ago the Live Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture got in touch by cable with Professor H. J. Quayle, a United States specialist, with a view to securing a supply of calcium cyanide for a practical test of its efficacy as an agent for the destruction of rabbits. The material was obtained and tested in various places with very promising results. A larger supply has since come to hand and further tests are now in progress. The question of comparative cost, when compared with other methods, and having regard to relative efficiency is being also worked out. Given continued satisfactory results the Department will, states a Press Association message from Wellington, take the necessary steps to enable supplies to be available to settlers. The reading room of the British Museum, with the supplemental presses, contains 3,000,000 books in 35 miles of shelve®.