TROOPS FED ON RABBIT
FARMERS’ DISCUSSION
“According to a letter from a soldier now overseas the troops were fed on rabbit the whole way over. Rabbits cannot be exported from New Zealand at present, but apparently the shipping companies can buy them and use them to provision their ships,” said Mr A. G. Diack at the annual conference of the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union yesterday. Mr Diack moved the following motion:—“That no rabbits be accepted for storage at the freezing works so long as there are restrictions on the killing of mutton and beef; that no stocks of rabbits on hand be allowed to be canned; and that no stocks of rabbits be allowed to occupy freezing space after the start of the next killing season.”
Mr E. K. Sim said he was not so sure that some rabbits had not been exported, and he suggested that the Government be asked to classify rabbit as inferior meat and to prohibit its export. In reply to a question from the president (Mr E. A. Cameron), Mr Sim said he was not prepared to move his suggestion as an amendment and Mr Diack’s motion was carried.
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Southland Times, Issue 24455, 7 June 1941, Page 6
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