RABBIT NUISANCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 9

RABBIT NUISANCE.

NORTH ISLAND BOARDS. CONFERENCE AT FEILDNG • Try telegraph—press association.] FEILDNG, May 16. The North Island Rabbit Boards’ Conference was held here to-day, Mr K. W. Balrymple presiding. Reporting on the work of the executive he said they had tried to get the desired amendments through Parliament but without the success they were promised. A Bill was in the hands of the Government printer ; that was "all. t The following remits were passed (1) “That where rabbit hoards were agreeable, the administration of the Noxious Weeds Act be placed in tlieir hands.” (2) “That where a river forms tlie boundary between two rabbit boards it be made compulsory for each board to pay half the cost of destroying rabbits on any islands in the river.” The conference rejected a remit asking the Government to import wire netting to supply boards at cost; also one that- the boards be empowered to compel owners whose 1 properties provide cover for rabbits, to destroy such cover.