THEFT OF RABBIT TRAPS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 9

THEFT OF RABBIT TRAPS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE t'RBSS. Sir,—is it possible for you to help f. e in some way? I employ four rabJit trappers and they trap the Selwyn r,v er. I trap myself, too. Since Januy, 2 this year 108 traps have been •tolen in lots of nine. 17, 21, and Waller lots. Last night and on Sat-

I and -n Sunda y 17 were taken. the (tin™ T\ 10St ° f my rabbits out of ' tiV/ho ' " 'f. sunply outrageous, as 1 IradJ ar S I,Vlng and their of ! mv «•■?*• h %"\ g } akcn lo °- * am at I n, en< l ° knOW what to d0 ' as hev 1 a " take the tra P s whenever sons hnT e acr ? s ? them " per"er ies at -il? l ° be ° n the P ro ' 'wi 1 al li I , have interviewed Mr Westenra and other owners, and they haVG illforme d the police horse?? ', c " >asio,l s about shooting mTxec'..n T g^ teS ,eft open and shce P ere t?kP P mv t haVe actuall y seen shootfo them h, y t V, aps l nd havo called out ihnir i m Ut hey have 0!lI y «?onc for -m- llve s with my traps/ All my ha^ 0 a r e th b / and^ d -, When they find awav rl T 7 W ' Gl ° throw them m v L„? a r ° ( , y at week-ends that my tups are taken. Mv proDeitv is at anybody's mC rcy to ialfecV leave as they think fit. Rabbit traps Zi n° t,kon en t . and thc rate the -v »re being taken its over £3 a week I can show receipts for more than Vinn these 1 hf rab K bh «™ P « o and l t h he n buik l S credlhl V k i be -? n - stolcn - II seems ini- hlv '% bu - ! l ,S nn absolute fact. It men of t*T e " . The s °- callcd sportsmen of to-day get sport at anybody's ?he P vT- ThGy HU]e thi,lk °* the worry IkLSr mC and . W men - II is like !V hni" 1 ' I !,™/" 3 too,s awa i' or tak--Yours etc 3 my famil >" s P lat^ January ij, 1938. OBITER.