Rabbit invasion in Victoria

The spectacle of an army of rabbits invading Victoria from New South Wales moved the rabbit inspector at Corryong to send telegraphic advice of the fact to departmental headquarters on January 7. The point of attack (reports the Age) was the bridge over the Murray at Jinjellio. The bridge, however, was too narrow to accommodate the hordes, and the little animals took to the river, which

is now running low, and swam to the Victorian side. The inspector asked whether action in the New South Wales side could not be enforced, so as to stem the advance. The department took the view that, in the circumstances, international codes of warfare should be abandoned, so the inspector was instructed to use every practical means of giving a check, including the employment of traps on the principal of the corral, such as is used in the capture of elephants, but on a necessarily smaller scale. By the time the department received its telegram and the inspector received his reply, the greater part of the New South Wales rabbit population had, of course, crossed the border.

by careless tourists who would not bother to close them, are usually avoided by borrowing the idea of the cattle guard from the railroad. A shallow pit is dug between two fence posts, and over this at right angles to the road are laid posts or planks close enough to accommodate the wheels of a car, but not the feet of wandering cattle. There is no gate; the road is always open for the motorist. But cattle drift up and sniff at this modern contrivance and turn away, too wary of the ditch beneath to venture over. It is a simple idea and apparently effective.