From the Sydney Morning Herald, December 3, 1914, a novel way of trapping rabbits, which may be just the ticket for exterminating the pest at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary, where Gang Gang visited this week, because it involves no shooting or chemicals, or dogs.
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"Inquiries have been received from all parts of the state for particulars of a new method of rabbit extermination in the Bathurst district. The new trap enables the rodents to be captured perfectly unharmed, and so it has proved eminently successful, several estates being cleared at small cost.
"The trap is constructed as follows:
"A quantity of wire netting is obtained and formed into a large cone. The narrower end is placed inside the mouth of the burrow, the trap lying on its side, with its base facing the rabbits as they emerge. A wire-netting partition running parallel to the sides of the trap, and thus at right angles to the ground, is arranged.
"The partition commences at the 'mouth' of the trap, but does not extend its whole length to the base.
"Parallel with the latter and connected with the petition is a wire door which allows a rabbit coming from the burrow to pass through, but prevents its return.
"The rabbit then passes along between the partitions and side of the trap, and may return to the mouth of the burrow, where, prevented from escape by the main wiring of the trap, it acts as a 'call' to the other burrow inmates.
"All other outlets from the burrow are blocked with paper, which is found to frighten the rabbits when they commence to work a way out.
"Thus, the only means of egress are by the hole in which the trap is placed. The trap, which may be constructed in a short time, costs at most a couple of shillings. The principle has been commended by the rabbit inspector for the district and is largely favoured because of its humane method of extermination."
