Shooters, Trappers & Poisoners by MIchael Bogle

Author:MIchael Bogle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shooters, trappers, poisoners, wild dogs, rabbits, australia, feral animals, dingo, animal pelts
Publisher: MIchael Bogle
Published: 2015-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Frank McCarthy, another rabbit buyer active in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales in the mid-20th century, argues the Melbourne-based rabbit exporters J. A. & G. McCraith (Jack and Gerald) were the first to introduce mobile chillers (refrigeration plants) to the rabbiting trade.6 He recalls that the McCraiths (Jack was informally known as the ‘rabbit king’) operated 73 mobile chillers in Victoria, 65 chillers in South Australia and 48 in New South Wales.7 Some sources claim that the McCraiths operated as far as the West Australian borderlands to keep up their supplies to their South Melbourne processing factory.8 The Carlton, Victoria small-goods processor, Norman Smorgon and Sons were initially amongst their major purchasers until Smorgons also became rabbit buyers. The McCraiths exported rabbits to the British grocer Sainsbury’s at a rate of 32,000 cased rabbits per week in the late 1940s.9 J. A. & G. McCraith are also said to have held the last rabbit export license in Victoria.10

L.A. Scandrett, J.C. Earle, William Angliss & Company and others also exported rabbits.11 These businesses had offices in the capital cities and a network of freezing depots also located in regional centres. G.B. Eggleton claims that in the mid-1930s, 15,000 to 25,000 pairs of rabbits were being handled weekly in Mildura, Victoria processing plants.12

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