DRIED RABBIT.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1301, 7 October 1922, Page 5

DRIED RABBIT.

■Sir.—Now that cows have ceased to be gold springs, many 1 farmers seem to have dropped upon a new industry, the product of which finds a ready sale in Kai-pong. Dried products and rabbits are fashionable just now. It seems a great pity, however, that some means of conserving the aroma has not been evolved, as the fume, if diluted, might well form a profitable side line (for the doctors). I would suggest that the producers of the dried article might utilise the clothes 'lines in their backyards in preference to the wires along their road fences, as visitors, rabbit inspectors, and others not in the trade do not always appreciate the excessive effluvia quite common round the Celestial city of Te Awamutu. In fact one visitor informed me recently that wherever he went he would always associate Te Awamutu with this particularly characteristic smell of decaying bunny. The advertisement is a novel one, no doubt, but hardly stands well alongside the proverb about the type of bird that fouls its own nest. On passing a local school recently I both heard and saw 16 rabbits hungt up by the ears to the barbed wire fence opposite (1 chain south west) the school gate. No wonder the schools are open only half days in February. Are the rabbits hung up for the inspector's benefit, or to drive him out of the locality? The Inspector of Public Health might have his attention drawn to the filthy habit. No doubt it is on'ly want, of thought but travellers on the public highways in want, of colds cannot avoid thinking of the foul rabbit gases that pollute the air of Te Awamutu's future suburbs. jDried milk from Te Awamutu should certainly be well known in China, when the milk is carted along under above conditions as the effluvia is guaranteed to penetrate any milk can ever invented. The respective Rabbit Boards might do something in the matter, as some of their employers are offenders. Do the Board members travel round and count the carcases? The road fences seem to be the favourite ones, but perhaps this avoids the necessity of leaving their cars.—l am, etc., • , BILL JUSTICE.