Half-price beer for dead bunnies

A Wanaka bar has come up with a novel idea to help with central Otago's rabbit plague - offering half-priced beer jugs for four dead rabbits this weekend.

Bullock Bar manager Margo Johnston said the promotion was not only to reduce the rabbit numbers, but also because the New Zealand Warriors were playing the Sydney Rabbitohs in a rugby league match in Auckland tomorrow.

"Hopefully it will eradicate a few rabbits from Central Otago farmland," she told The Southland Times.

The dead rabbits were expected to be turned into dog food.

- NZPA