RABBIT CONTROL PROPOSAL
Waimairi County
View The Department of Agricultur has written to the Waimairi County Council asking if it agrees to land over 10 acres being taken into a rabbit district, but the council is doing nothing about it. Instead the council decided that rabbit control should be under local authorities.
The county chaiman (Mr H. J. Reynolds) said there were few rabbits near the city now and the costs of maintaining a rabbit board would not be worth while. Cr. F. W. Whiter said: “There are few rabbits on the plains today. We would be rating for nothing at all.” He said one Government department was travelling the country trying to cut down the number of local bodies and another Government department was trying to create more. He said rabbits should be controlled by local authorities in the same way as noxious weeds were controlled. The council adopted Cr. Walter’s suggestion.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 11
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