On This Day, 30 October 1918

Birmingham Daily Post 

Wednesday 30 October 1918

BIRMINGHAM TABLE RABBIT SOCIETY

The Management Committee of the Birmingham Table Rabbit Society have decided to establish a depot for the sale of table rabbits, alive or dead, at 248. Broad Street. The depot will be opened by the Lady Mayoress (Lady Brooks) on November 6. A letter signed by the Lord Mayor is being circulated to the society’s members, explaining the purpose of the depot and the lines on which it will be conducted. The live rabbits on sale will be six-weeks-old youngsters, which should be purchased and kept by those willing to rear them until they are fourteen weeks old, when they should ready for killing. Should the rearers not need them for their own table they may be sold back to the depot. Dead rabbits will prepared for sale Ostend fashion. The “Ostend” trade is quite unknown in Birmingham, but it is believed there are hundreds people who will welcome the Ostend rabbit as food if they are given a chance to try it. “The meat shortage will be acute this winter,” writes the Lord Mayor, “so it is confidently hoped that all will do their best at this crisis to provide the city with a new trade and a permanent source of food.”