THE RABBIT PLAGUE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3791, 8 September 1883, Page 2

THE RABBIT PLAGUE.

The Babbit Suppression Committee met yesterday in the rooms of tho Chamber of Commerce. Present: Captain Russell (chairman), Messrs Chambers, Coleman, Douglas, Loughnan, McLean, Williams, and Handyside. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the following resolutions were passed:— That tho Government be requested to set out tho line of the proposed fenco in the direction indicated by the Porangahau Committee.

That the Government be requested to place their surveyor in communication with Mr A. H, Price, chairman of the Porangahau, Committoe,

That the Waste Lands Board be requested to reserve a chain on either side of the lino of rabbit fence about to bo laid off by a Got vcrnment surveyor, and also wherever practicable to reserve a chain on either side of the present line of fenco at Waimata.

That the Minister of Lands be informed that it is necessary to reserve a chain width on both sides of tho proposed fence, as any purchaser of waste lauds could, whenever ho saw fit, remove tho rabbit proof fenco if on

his own boundary, and as therefore it will bo impossible to charge against abutting section tho half cost of tho erection of tho fence, this meeting endorses the resolution of the Waste Lands Board of August 3], 1883, and urgently requests tho Govern, ment to subsidise tho proposed fence to tho extent of pound per pound, us the injury done by rabbits in the immediate futuro will bo more serious to waste lands of tho Crown than to private property. The correspondence to dato was laid on tho tablo and approved. Tho Committee then udjourned,