The Rabbit Pest.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5914, 20 August 1890, Page 2

The Rabbit Pest.

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Xi nga Pakeha o Haako Pei, Tona Koutou, —E pawera ana ahau ki tenei taniwhn kino c. uui hnerc ana i ruuga i to whenua i ira ntu takiwti o to Koroni, kua timata hoki tv lmwe mni ki tenei takiwa— ara te nanakia noi to rapoti. Ivii koro c kit™ ho tikanga o taea ai te whakamate i tan:i autaiu, c kore c roa ka nguro katoa te inntu, ka pan k.itoa to tnruturu, ka marakerake te whenita, ka matemate nga hipi. He languta whakatupu hipi ano au, koia au i nwangawangu ai ki taua hanga. He iwi niohio koo te pakeha ki euei tuinea, ara Id to nipu tikanga pai o mate ai ana rapoti, knia au o men nei kia kaha rawa koutou ki te whukangaro i taua whukaariki whak;iuiataku c huri haero mai ana i runga i te 'vhonua me to waipuke.v Kα korerotia uuitia c au tenei mea ki ni;a iwi Maori o to uiotu nei a to wa o tv ai la nifitou nupepa Maori o meatia ana kia tdia ki Nepia nei. TIPENK MaTOA. Torangahau, Akuhata 18th, lSs)O. [TUAK3LA.TION.]

To tho Pakehas of liawko's Bay, greotiuM-. — 1 am troubled about this destroying post which is so greatly increasing and overrunm-ig-the hind ii other parts of the col-my, and which is also making its appearanco in this district, nuimily. that baneful Keonrge, tho rabbit. If no means can be found to tret rid of tho vermin tho whole country will' oro lonir bo completely overrun, the herbage destroyed, the surface of the tfi-ound b:'ir;>, and tho f-hoep dead. I myself ai>s v sheopfiirmor, and therefore I aiii somowhat anxious about; this thing. You Pakohas arc a people who understand such matters, and aro able to duvise somcj method of oxterminatiUK , the rabbits, thoro for.! 1 a.-ik yin: to bo zealcms and ournost in destroying this itrriblo iinny which is ovfi'.tpiv.idinj? tho land as the waters of a Hv.vlinijT liood. I thai :uldi'iv-> uiy.wlf on this subject to l/i. native tribes generally throughout ilie colony through thi; mcUhim of our ..Maori nowbfupur, which shortly to be puMiaheii in Napier. fIPKNIi AIAXUA. ]'oriiutrahaii, August ls;h, 180u.