WAR MEMORIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 11

WAR MEMORIAL.

ADDITIONS TO THE FUND. TOTAL OF £160,035 RECEIVED. Additional contributions to the Auckland War Memorial Fund bring the total up to £160,035 19a, the latest list being as follows:— £ a. d. Amount acknowledged as per Lists No. 1, 2, and 3, published Nov. 26, Deb. iA 8, and Dec. 12 . . . . 156,980 12 10 Additional contributions since received as under: Anonymous . . - . 1,174 4 1 Oliver Nicholson Presentation Fund 300 0 0 Mt. Eden Borough Council . , 300 0 0 Mt. Eden House to House Canvass .. . . 167 15 8 Auckland Stock Exchange . . 200 0 0 Mt. Albert Borough Collection 152 2 6 Trustees of the late J. C. Macky Estate . . . . . 150 0_ 0 Family of the late E. Pasooe . . .... 50 0 0 J. B. MaoEwen and Co., Ltd. 60 0 0 Lewis R. Eady & Son, Ltd. 60 0 0 Wake; Anderson and Sneddon .... . . 50 0 0 Reyburn, McArthur and Boyes .... .. 50 0 0 Frank A. Brown \ ■. . < 80 0 0 Cousins and Atkin . 4* 30 0 0 Misses Fleming ~ , , 30 0 0 E. A. Price . . .. . . 25 0 0 Women's Patriotic League (additional) . . .. 85 8 7 Biernacki and McLiver 1 ~ 21 0 0 Peak, Kirker, and Newoomb 21 0 0 Victoria League (additional) . . .. .. 20 18 9 Hutchison, Elliffe and Cameron 15 15 0 T. H. Barstow . . ... 15 0 0 Robinson and Robinson ~ 10 10 0 Wallace Alexander . . .» 10 10 0 Chas. H. Jones . . .. 10 10 0 Geo. H. Powley ». .. 10 0 0 John Dawson .. >, 10 0 0 Dr. A. Eisdell Moore .. 10 0 0 Jacob and Billingrton .. 5 5 0 H. M. Didsbury . ; . . 5 5 0 Dignan. Armstrong, Jordan and Jordan . .. ~ t>s 0 C. J. Lovo«rrov» „ v .. 5 5 0 W. F. Stillwell . . .. '550 W. R. Tuck .. .. 5 5 0 " 1.M.M." .. .. * 5 0 0 T. M. Alexander . . .. 5 0 0 Church of Holy Sepulchre . 310 4 A. G. Quartley . . , . 22 0 A. Henderson . .. 220 W. A. Black . .. .. 22 0 J. H. Parr _ . . . . . . 22 0 Epsom Baptist Churoh . . 110 " C.M.C." . . .v » ✓ 10 0 " G.S.C." 10 0 3055 6 6 Amount previously acknowledged No. 1, 2, 3 Lists '£ 156,980 12 10 £ 160,035 19 i V. J. liAItNER, I Auckland. Hon. Treasurer. December 17, 1923.

THE HERALD LIST. DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. The following donations to the War Memorial Fund were received at the Herald Office yesterday:— Previously acknowledged '£4078 7 6 Wiih Lee, 45, Grey St. . „ M 10 10 0 M.W.W. .. .. 5 0 0 Mrs. M. A. Bennett „ „, 2 0 0 M.C. .• ». mm 110 Cheerio!! . „ »» *, 100 ' £4097 18 6

BABBITS' DEPREDATIONS. COST TO AUSTRALIA. TRAPPERS DOING WELiL. , [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, Dec. 6. That the rabifc is a plague and should be treated as such is beyond question. It is estimated that every seven to ten rabbits consume feed which would maintain one sheep, the annual equivalent today of ten shillings additional wealth, plus its share of increased trade and labour. A writer in the press, pointing to the extraordinary depredations of rabbits in New South Wales, states that to encourage men to make good money in trapping for skins or carcases, far from lessening the economic evil, is to make an industry of something that is a dangerous cancer on Australia's g&atest. industry. That the rabbit is a costly pest is seen from the amazing figures which the writer quotes. Up to June in New South Wales 114,944 miles of rabbit fencing had been erected, at a cost of £6,763,747. . Of this, private enterprise has been responsible for 112,876 miles at the huge outlay of £6,666,000. This works out at an average of about £59 per mile. Nine-tenths of tho fence was' erected before the war. To-day the same mileage would probably cost Veil over £10,000,000.

This, however, is not all. To dig out and destroy in infested country entails a further outlay of 5s to 7s 6d per acre, and, where the land has had to be dug over again, the cost often runs into 10s an acre. It is said to be a common thing to see trappers, whose capital is represented by a few dozen traps, earning more money in catching rabbits than the landowner himself makes from his sheep on the same land.