Cuy, photo. A TYPICAL OTAGO RABBITER.. Br’er Rabbit finds conditions on the big Southern stations very much to his liking, and, as an old settler recently remarked. “They have done more for the poor man and caused more employment than anything else in the country.” He instanced a big station, which employed about a dozen men, but when “bunny” put in an appearance, the wages’ roll was soon altered, and upwards of 100 men and boys were engaged destroying the pests, packing provisions to those “wayback” and returning with skins.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 6, 11 August 1909, Page 20

Cuy, photo. A TYPICAL OTAGO RABBITER.. Br’er Rabbit finds conditions on the big Southern stations very much to his liking, and, as an old settler recently remarked. “They have done more for the poor man and caused more employment than anything else in the country.” He instanced a big station, which employed about a dozen men, but when “bunny” put in an appearance, the wages’ roll was soon altered, and upwards of 100 men and boys were engaged destroying the pests, packing provisions to those “wayback” and returning with skins.