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Western Star, 9 April 1920, Page 3

A traveller in Central Otago Leary wonderful tales o'f cheques made by rabbiterg these days. Some of the rabbiters are becoming employers of labour. One man is employing a lad from town to help him. He gives the lad £6 a week and found. The rabbiter’s cheque runs from £4O to 050 a. fortnight, leaving him a handsome return from his labour. Three pounds per day is now considered a very ordinary return for a rabbiter. Areas of land in various parts of the Dominion, totalling nearly 1,500,000 acres, have by proclamations in the Gazette, been set aside for State forests, Heavy gales are being experienced in. the North Islands, and shipping has been held in the ports.