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Kōrero: Rabbits

Rabbit netting advertisement

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Rabbit netting advertisement

The government and commercial firms began importing large quantities of rabbit netting in the 1880s. This advertisement for Dunedin hardware merchants selling rabbit netting and rabbit traps appeared in the Otago Witness in 1894.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Otago Witness, 13 September 1894, p. 7

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Robert Peden, Rabbits – Rabbit fences, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/15260/rabbit-netting-advertisement (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.