PLAGUE OF RABBITS.
SEVERE LOSS TO FARMERS. EAST ANGLIA OVER-RUN. TRAPPING MADE UNPROFITABLE. United Press Assn.—Klee. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent says a rabbit plague is causing severe losses to farmers, especially in East Anglia, which is overrun. Mr S. Radcliff, ex-president of the National Farmers’ Union, the plague partly to mild springs and hot summers, but chielly to the low price of imported rabbit meat, making trapping unprofitable. lie points -out that England imported £570,000 worth of frozen rabbits in 1031, and suggests a heavy tariff on imported rabbit meat."
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 8
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100PLAGUE OF RABBITS. Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 8
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