HURUNUI RABBIT TRUST.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18682, 4 May 1926, Page 3

HURUNUI RABBIT TRUST.

FENCING QUESTION MSCTOMU*. At the monthly meeting at tha Batasai Babbit Trust at Hawardea those wn ateaent: Messrs J. Header (» Sfea eftajr), A. . H. L. Hiatt, W. Hanmar Atkinson, aad JSloss. Apologies for absence war* inwltrd from Messrs J. Monro and W. 7. ■oOTßas * The inspectors' and caxvUkan* taaarts tar the month were At •»§•**taspector reported that ha had take* aatiaa against three oeenpiera of land* ft* eaasoquencu of insufficient rabbiting Wk lavas done. The caretaker at Horuasl jtspustsd .that several loads of rubbUh had on the Board's section than, aad St ama decided to give fourteen days* aetata I* mien. same removed. _ r It to resolved to acquaint Mr 9.fSf. Forbes, M.P., of certain taggwrittmr faojtai* ing suggested amendments to tha T WlWri Nuisance Ace, 190S, which tha Board times* advisable. In answer to a request far. angxeatkaa regarding rabbit work, it was dlliaad- W) notify the enquirer that tha Band a*»SMV ed that the property ha hraidfaei, hiaaßy with phospborised oats ianMdlteetr, enadl*»> ing the same during tho^iiaasiJaroa-moalkl It was resolved, oa the mejtlaa, o<-Meters Hiatt and Atkinson, to a»*e>i£eftaia lanalia and alterations done to the miitiice at Hat*> nui occupied by the caretaker. The attention of the Board was Ana t» a report of the Jlotnnan Baalist Board ■Rating whereby it waa stated by Mr X. 0. Canst* bell that the Motnnsn area reanired to tad only half the cost of the seventeen Btilta of fence, estimated at £4OOO, that tha ether half would be found by the adjoining Rahhit Board as contiguous owner. This atateataat was taken exception to aa being laaasjaUL the Board having been deaaitety- aaaaaaa* by the Director-Oeaeral of Asrieattnm aa November (ith last, in this coa aortas, that the Board of a district coattitaatd . aaaer Fart 2 of the Act is not donsMd to he> tho occupier of all land within ite dktriet aa is a Board constituted under Part 4L «bs> sequeatly the new Board, if silaslTshoi, would have no claim againnt tha Oaiaaoi Babbit Board in respect of any foaeaa taat the new Board might erect. Tkia Saftwawtion has been definitely wntonsd by an opinion obtained from tho Board'e eaSciaen. The secretary reported that tha aaaaaaa of .rates levied last year from tha Melons* rabbit district was approxiawtely eaty J» i out of a total rate levied of 1153* over the whole district. Cheques were signed in l«ymsat af n*counts amounting to SZU 5a -lt*V •**» > were approved.