HERETAUNGA SMALL BIRDS' NUISANCE ASSOCIATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7550, 25 September 1886, Page 3

HERETAUNGA SMALL BIRDS' NUISANCE ASSOCIATION.

(FROSt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

■ A meeting of the above association was held on. Thursday at Kelly's Hotel, Has.tings. Mr Ellis in the chair. The Secretary read the advertisement . convening the meeting, and also a letter, from the Hawke's Bay. County Council, in reply to the Association's letter, urging the Council to take measures for the destruction of small birds. In their- reply the Council pointed out that, under the Small Birds' Nuisance Act it is competent for any local. body to levy a rate for tho purpose of destroying small birds, and advised that tho association apply to the Hastings' Town Board to put the law in force.. The Secretary stated that he had written to tlie Hastings Town Board in reference to the resolution passed by them at their last meeting, declining to accede to the, request of the association to take measures for poisoning small birds. The Secretary, in his reply, pointed out that the resolution did not exactly meet the question at issue, which was not whoso poison should be used, but who should pay for it, and urged that ns tho work was one for the public good, and could hot be, carried. out on a sufficient scale by the association, the local authorities should take the matter up, levying a special rate for, the purpose. Since that letter was written, however, the Town Board has ceased to exist, the town havinjr been made into a borough ; therefore, Mr Kelly, moved, and Mr G. Hayes seconded, " That this meeting requests the Hastings Borough Council to take, such measures as shall seem to those fit for the abatement of the small 1 birds nuisance, and to ask for the cooperation of all other local bodies >in Hawke's Bay for the same purpose ; also, that it be an instruction to the secretary to write to the Hastings Borough Council informing them of the above resolution." — Carried.

• r Moved by Mr Kelly, and seconded hy MrG. Hayes., "That" from this date tho services of Sir Killick, as collector to the Heretaunga Small Birds Nuisance Association, be dispensed with ; that Mr KUlick receive notice to this effect ; and that an advertisement be inserted stating that Mr Killick is no longer collector to the said association." — Carried.

•' Moved by Mr Murdoch, and seconded by Mr Kelly, " That Mr Ellis be elected a member of the committee of this association."—Carried.

A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and the meeting closed.