RUINED SHEEP STATION

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1785, 22 July 1926, Page 5

RUINED SHEEP STATION

COUNTRY AS BARE AS A BOARD. As illustating the damage done by rabbits, a Wanganui resident, who recently visited' Karioi. states that a party of three went out shooting, and the Wanganui man, although poorest shot of the party, managed, in three days, to bag 87 rabbits. The country, he said,, was as bare as a, board, and he had come to the concluson that the rabbits had migrated across from Hawke’s Bay during the dry season. On a two-acre block, the owners of one station had distributed poisoned carrots, and .it was surprising to note that 2000 rabbits were destroyed, the skins being sold. Some yeai’s ago, this station shore 90 bales of wool, and a few years later, owing to the depredations of rabbits, the total clip was reduced to three bales, and last year only two bales were shorn. The rabbits had almost entirely replaced the sheep, and the only hope- of making a living at all, was what could be derived from the rabbit skins.