On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:51:41 GMT, "Martin H. Eastburn"
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

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Had a hoot about this:
"Sometime in the 1850's a man was charged at the Colac (Victoria)
Police Court with having shot a rabbit, the property of John Robertson
of Glen Alvie. He was fined 10 pounds. A few years later, Robertsons
son spent 5000 pounds a year in an attempt to control rabbits" (pg 21
Rolls). By 1869 it was estimated that 2,033,000 rabbits had been
destroyed on his property and that they were as thick as ever (pg 35
Rolls).

In Australia, the bunnie lovers almost killed the ranches from what I heard.

Martin

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