Kōrero: Marlborough region

Rabbit on the menu

Rabbit on the menu

Rabbits reached plague proportions in late-19th-century Marlborough. Trapping rabbits and processing their meat into a canned product gave rise to this colourful artwork on cans around 1900, but did little to reduce their numbers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-130

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Malcolm McKinnon, 'Marlborough region - Grazing and farming', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/31766/rabbit-on-the-menu (accessed 20 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, updated 1 Nov 2016