RABBITS IN HAWKE'S BAY.
[BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] Hastings, Friday. At the meeting of the committee of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society at Hastings to-day, Mr. L. H. McHardy, chairman of the Hawke's Bay Rabbit Board, referred to the statement made by Mr. A. C. Bennett at the Board's last meeting, as to the increase of rabbits in an unspecified area north of Napier. Mr. McHardy. said that Mr. Bennett had declined to name the place where he asserted he had noticed an increase in rabbits. The only place the other members could imagine was meant was the Clarkard Range, which was very difficult country. Every effort was being made to cope with the pest. The winter had been very favourable to rabbits, but as soon as spring had fairly set in the Board was determined to clear them off. Persons reading Mr. Bennett statement might conclude there had been a terrible influx of rabbits, but such was not the case.
The meeting passed a vote of confidence in Mr. McHardy as chairman of the Rabbit Board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 6
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