Rabbit Menace Growing
MELBOURNE.—The phoney war against Australia’s rabbit is being lost. Unless an all-out effort was made now to control them, great sections of th? country’s primary industries would be wiped out, said the secretary of the Graziers’ Association of Victoria, recently. Good seasons in the past few years had made it possible for farmers to absorb the huge losses caused by the pests, but with drier conditions, rabbits could deal a staggering blow to rural industries. But the rabbit is a money earner abroad. Last year’s exp ortpack of 1,168,000 made a record, but it has been broken this year. By the encl of October the pack was 2,170.000 rabbits.—Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 3
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