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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9628, 17 March 1910, Page 4

A number of Opaki settlers have combined to erect five miles of rabbitproof netting to protect themsolves from a paternal Government which breeds rabbits on the reserves at the back of their properties. This Government brooding ground swarms settlers' properties with an incessant supply of the post. The Government recognises no responsibility us to keeping down rabbits on its own territory, and country settlers are forced to put up with its rabbits or to fence them off at a vory considerable expense. The Opaki settlors have taken the only means available to settle the rabbit difficulty once for all, aud may be congratulated upou thoir enterprise in facing a grave difficulty of this kind. Self-help is the true solution of dealing with the rabbit plague !