RABBITS A SOCIAL PEST

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14284, 27 August 1910, Page 2

RABBITS A SOCIAL PEST

sK,sfr' and in eCIUtL ' S tlle valu ® W, rf „; -« irsxs* 25 people claim that it lias a. bon.-iieiiU influence, inasmuch, a.s it provides a moats of livelihood for a lLye Lut in reality, says the -'Paston'lists' ' , this . advantage is ■ind i« 0 , ev ' e , lo I ) ,nt <! a serious curse, i Hi is already having the effect of hi ngmg about a distinctly low moral tone anumgst the rising generation i n r r,t f ? IStnCtS Whe , ro rahbit tra PP»>g * (.lined oil upon a largo scale The fact ~oys ™ n is indix iji n " S 111 , a ty this means wii r. S ln frT Ia r cls who wouW otliervorl- to n J :ul " Us n ? farm or station work to scorn such arduous toil and they piefor tins easy method of'eara+r a ] T"r' V n h ll:,s abnllt ;t s<,'llething of the element of "sport." The influence ot the rnbl.it is thus rapidly becoming demoralising. School boys ilii'r' I '} UUWy i"' s ,'! f tlle n '^ ht '» ta.it--11- traps and collecting their furrv ..poi and they arc dulled and quite ... i , V vi«il for school work, teachers complain that these bovs are unable and disinclined to attend to tho lessons, and as soon as they have passed the statutory school age of fourteen years they arc off rabbiting for a living Hie exleco is tliat a new elas,s is growinuup m some rural districts, with tho lust upon them, a low tvne of men, who live to hear tho click of the traps, who disdain work in tho usual way, and who are only perpetuating and cultivating a pest instead of helping to stamp it out.