[SEL] Austral Adverts Question

[R & M Ingold]

Yup! But the 'health and safety' mob wern't around then! Come to think on 
it, I wonder how many rabbits would be here now if the DHS had been around 
'controlling' things?
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arnie Fero" <fero_ah at city-net.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Austral Adverts Question


> G'day Reg,
>
> Ahhh, that's amazing.  Those of us outside Oz just have no appreciation
> for what a major problem that was.  From 24 wild rabbits released at
> Barwon Park by Thomas Austin in 1859 you went to being plagued by billions
> & billions by just the early 1900's.  The little buggers were going at it,
> well, like rabbits.  8-))
>
> Makes you wonder how many people died accidentally from exposure to
> cyanide gas during those rabbit killing campaigns.
>
> Thanks for the info mate!!
>
> See ya,  Arnie
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, R & M Ingold wrote:
>
>> Cyanide gas fumes were blown down rabbit holes to kill em. Ya dont really
>> know how bad they were at the height of the rabbit plague. So, some folk 
>> had
>> a good business going round with a blower setup.
>
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