RABBIT PEST
A GROWING MENACE. SCHEME TO UTILIZE UNEMPLOYED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 17. The rapidity with which rabbits are increasing, particularly in the highlands of the South Island, is causing grave concern owing to the economic conditions and the fact that the low price of rabbitskins contributes little or nothing towards the cost of their eradication. Many sheep farmers are utterly unable to check the spread of the pest and there are grave risks that large areas of Crown lands will be rendered valueless. A deputation consisting of Dr. Reakes, Director General of Agriculture, Mr J. Lyons, director of the live stock division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr J. H. O’Donnell, Controller of the Accounts Department, the Lands Survey and Commissioners of Crown Lands for Marlborough, Otago and Southland, waited upon the Unemployment Board to-day to endeavour to arrange for the use of unemployed labour to assist in controlling the menace. There was complete agreement as to the need for resolutely tackling the problem and ways and means for utilizing unemployed labour in the task were fully discussed. It was finally arranged that the Department of Agriculture and Lands should devise a plan for submission to the Unemployment Board.
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Southland Times, Issue 21732, 18 June 1932, Page 6
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203RABBIT PEST Southland Times, Issue 21732, 18 June 1932, Page 6
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